Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

161–170 of 1001 posts

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#161

Post by pmiller2 »

ta747474 wrote: post #94
pmiller2 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe give ViperCard a try? https://github.com/downpoured/vipercard

I think the site (vipercard.net) got hugged to death, keen to look at it.

https://github.com/downpoured/vipercard/issues/14

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#162

Post by ct520 »

userbinator wrote: post #139
rsync wrote: post #71

Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…

I also do not recall Altavista ever banning me with a CAPTCHA for "searching too hard".

Can probably blame dogpile for the evolution of that

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#163

Post by chalkandpaste »

maxmcd wrote: post #127
lev99 wrote: post #122

Demonoid, a private torrent tracker. It had a wide range of quality files and the enforced ratio kept seeders around.

And on that note: what.cd

Oh man, I miss what so hard. Can't find anything comparable today. Those were the golden days, when I could find obscure albums that you couldn't even pay good money for.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#165

Post by nimchimpsky »

jdlyga wrote: post #33

I really miss AIM. It's great having real-time conversations with people you know are online. Facebook Messenger is similar, but it doesn't fill quite the same need.

Really ? There is literally a metric fuck ton of messaging apps/chat apps.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#168

Post by api »

Old MathCAD in the Windows 95 era was an amazing intuitive visual math program. Helped me learn and I miss it whenever I have to delve into heavy math of any kind.

Modern tools have regressed a lot UI wise. I feel like excluding easy but shallow web and mobile UIs we are in a UI dark age.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#169

Post by panic »

jdlyga wrote: post #33

I really miss AIM. It's great having real-time conversations with people you know are online. Facebook Messenger is similar, but it doesn't fill quite the same need.

I think that feeling has more to do with the way people used the internet than it does with AIM itself. Nobody "goes online" any more. Now we're always online, so it's less special.
Post reply on HN