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

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Post by WWLink »

jimnotgym wrote: post #46

I miss a site called ebay.com that was full of people selling second-hand goods. It was replaced by a site selling Chinese knockoffs of the thing you want to buy. Then there was this other site that sold books and CDs called Amazon, they did a similar thing. I really enjoyed browsing suggestions back then. Finally froogle, superficially similar to google shopping that replaced it, but it actually helped you find thin…

Ahh I miss froogle. But I also really liked yahoo shopping. It had a similar global search, if I recall, but you could still buy directly from tons of stores.

Same with using pricewatch to get cheap computer parts.

It feels like a lot of the competition is gone now.

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

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Post by hprotagonist »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #77
hprotagonist wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i shall treasure this moment forever, with hot grits.

Gross.

more seriously, thanks for the excellent and formative good times. You made something great.

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Post by usmannk »

chrisandchips wrote: post #54

Old school runescape. I played it as a kid and have never otherwise had such a wonderful and memorable experience playing a video game. Im quite young (23) so when I was playing it back in 2006-2008, I learned a LOT about life. Trading and bartering, getting scammed, talking to people to get help moving forward in the game, etc. Most of my friends who used to play agree. You can still play, they brought it back a few…

So true. My first thought was this as well. I'm about the same age as you and played RS at much the same time. Personally the experience was greatest due to the huge black market community. Hell, I even first learned to code in order to bot RS. Learned a lot of the exact same lessons (Trading and bartering, getting scammed, talking to people to get help moving forward) but in real life and with real money.

I still haven't gotten over suddenly getting banned from PayPal for selling virtual goods when I was 14. The ~$1000 USD I had made, pretty much all the money to my name, was held hostage for 6 months!

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Post by Lammy »

geocrasher wrote: post #73

The old slashdot.org The old digg.com Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them? My ealiest memories were pre-net, on Prodigy and AOL, long before they were 'net connected and could email each other. I learned what connectivity was at 2400 baud. I didn't discover BBS's until much later, around 1993-4,and was at 14.4k at that point. I never really understood fidonet…

The old SomethingAwful for me.

> Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them?

They stopped having web pages and started having Xangas/Friendsters/Myspaces that had the networking feature built-in.

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