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Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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post #104

Fravia's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia ) old site on geocities in the second half of the 90's. Some of the content lives on in the wayback machine under the 'www.searchlores.org' domain, but the period before he launched that site was magical to me. For several years there, he kept his identity deliberately secret (there was a bit of a mystery around it). The sort of reverse engineering techniques he describ…

Ah, I remember reading his Soft Ice tutorials and just found out that he passed away in 2009. Sad news.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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1996 or so: altavista.digital.com! I loved (and got pretty good at due to daily training, heh) using boolean operations to find whatever I wanted. No Google back then. Nowadays Google finds so much noise that I wish I could use boolean operations once again to weed out the spam. Also liked slashdot.org in its early days.

Me too.

I know you are an active user here, but this comment reminded me those users on Slashdot who would only comment when there is a user id competition (ie. who has the lowest id).

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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post #145

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/

Was hoping someone here mentioned flipcode. I was in the irc channel daily.

Flipcode! The good old days of me trying to render a BSP map. There's a tutorial about it there which I tried to follow. Obviously it didn't work out.

Shortly after it was closed down.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you get that I'm citing specifically the culture of free software activism . A device that is hardwired to only load Linux kernels crytopgraphically signed by corporate entities doesn't fit the bill, nor is it great to have a bunch of proprietary stuff on top. > It's not likely that closed components could have existed without a foundation of linux/bsd. This is false and I think pretty naive. On the App…

I completely understand you're referring to FSF culture. I'm not referring to that. I've followed Richard Stallman for over 20 years. Linux/BSD source code were part of a lineage that many of today's operating systems, whether you want to package that up as Mach, UMX, whatever. 1. Mac OS X includes oss code in it's foundation. "Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs once tried to hire Linus Torvalds, the irrepressible Finn…

> I appreciate you feel the need to feel better about yourself at the expense of others by calling others names,

You have misread me. I do not feel better than anybody else nor do I feel I need to. I also do not feel that I am calling you or anybody names. I have not met you, I am confident you are a wonderful human being. It is, independent of the thinker, naive to think Mac, iOS, or Android needs Linux or BSD and couldn't be ported to or based upon something else in the start.

I mean, apart from the fact that NeXT's key pieces were also ported to NT as they struggled to find a market for NeXTstep, in Apple's search for a kernel, they also considered BeOS, and they had a short lived project MkLinux which had Linux in the same co-position with Mach as BSD has with XNU ... This reflects the attitude that any modern kernel will do, that they can swap them in and out with little consequence. A similar attitude that people advocate when saying they ought to port Android to Fuschia.

But many people also exaggerate the role of BSD in XNU. In many places there is little resemblance. They continue to diverge over time.

You have also evidently misread me on some other matters in the thread and this brings me to read your reply as a bit of a non sequitur, but it's not worth debating them and you say you're cutting me off. So I do hope you have a good day, fine sir or madam. Best regards, friend.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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post #83
post #34

Ytmnd.com

Still live and as relevant as ever -> https://picard.ytmnd.com EDIT: Apologies if anybody here had forgotten or still didn't know about this and now can't take this tune out of their head. It's what it does, don't fight it.

Awesome. It looks like they brought it back!

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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post #21

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I remember it! Completely unrelated but somethingaweful.com was really hilarious back then. back when meme wasn't a thing.

SA goons are also still hard at work. Fark, too.

Unrelated to your comment here but a while back you mentioned you liked some Space Cadet keycaps I had, but they are usually only available via a group buy. There's another one going on right now for a set that looks the same but comes in a different key profile: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=105375.0

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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what.cd It was truly the Library of Alexandria of music. Cataloging standards were high and you could find even obscure releases in perfect quality in multiple formats (CD rips, multiple vinyl rips). Now I use Spotify and it frustrates me that songs will disappear without notice because their license expired and that I can't find most foreign music I previously listened to. The audio quality isn't comparable, either.

"What" replace "Oink", and "Redacted" replaced What. It's all still out there.

It is, but there's a lot of gatekeeping going on. As a music collector and former what.cd member I'd love to join and contribute to Redacted, but I won't go through that interview process.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The old Slashdot was orders of magnitude better than HN -I am not going to even mention Reddit-. For all its lame jokes it was filled with people who actually loved technology and science and the moderation system was very solid.

Anyone curious should go read Slashdot posts from that time.

/. From this day 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050326092609/http://slashdot.o...

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