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Then Twitter happened and it all changed.
Back in the late '90 I was into game development I used to visit flipcode.com [1] daily for image of the day, tutorials and the forum. [1] https://flipcode.com/
Deoxy.org - The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension It was a personal wiki of sorts about psychedelics, new age mysticism, anarchy, subversive philosophy, environmentalism, and obscure information. It was still up until a few years ago. I haven’t found a complete archive. The archive here is fairly outdated: https://jacobsm.com/deoxy/deoxy.org/index.html (click the small links for “hi-res” or “low-res” framesets.) Before…
Maybe not as good as days of old, but you may enjoy it :)
Fark, Plastic, Metafilter Metafilter still exists, but the culture changed to the point where most discussions became a meta-discussion about how the discussion should be allowed to be discussed. And it just wore me out.
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I never used Napster, but this sounds really interesting. Could you explain how browsing the filesystem of the user works in more detail??
Yes, all the things that people posted here. And, in addition, you could chat with the user. It was so interesting to connect with someone purely through shared genre love. And then to ask them questions about what they liked that you didn't know about. There was nothing else like that serendipity.
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old Slashdot had an anti MS and pro Linux bias, but nothing more. It was more free spirited. It was not dominated with startups and VCs and did not go overboard trying to moderate certain kind of discussions. I do love HN, but it is still part of YC and allows some commercial activity and I feel at times goes overboard on flagging certain kind of discussions and comments (I'm not referring to obvious trolling and uns…
What happened to Slashot in the end? I went there a few months back and the topics are still being added but the comments section on all articles was off topic conspiracy theory rant type stuff, with nobody replying to each other.
So many sites that technically still exist but have changed slashdot shoutcast pricewatch anandtech - now it has such a sterile, corporate feel - back in the day in addition to reviews they'd do write-ups on their own infrastructure - not in the nebulous sense, but actually step by step, detailing what they were running (ColdFusion at the time as I recall) allaire.com (no longer exists) - before Github or any of the…
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I have empathy for your nostalgia. I played Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and was part of a pretty cool community.
Man, those were the times! I'm still crossing for fingers that we'll eventually see a W:ET remake with better graphics but the same game dynamics (and, most importantly, physics). Or that ET Legacy [1] or the inofficial ET2 [2] will pick up steam. [1] https://www.etlegacy.com/ [2] https://www.crossfire.nu/journals/156955/et2-remake-new-upda...