RIP Kuro5hin
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RIP Kuro5hin
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#3Sad. Kuro5hin was a great community in the day. When did this happen?
Oh how I loved the ASCII art reenactment players...
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#4> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion"
Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..
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#5https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
I'd not heard of this community before. Before my time, I guess.
The idea of publishing something or not is rather interesting. It presumably encouraged much higher quality content.
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#6Wow. That's one of those moments I really feel old ... ;-p
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#7Kuro5hin ran a block-all in their robots.txt[0] so this is more historic internet content that will dissapear into the abyss.
Anyone know of a mirror or an effort to mirror and host the site?
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#8Permanent or temporary outage?
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#9Kuro5hin ran a block-all in their robots.txt[0] so this is more historic internet content that will dissapear into the abyss. Anyone know of a mirror or an effort to mirror and host the site? [0] http://www.kuro5hin.org/robots.txt
The robots.txt you see now is probably the one on the server "parking" the domain, and not that of the original site.
A "site:kuro5hin.org" query shows results, so I'm guessing the original one isn't a block-all.
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#10https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
I'd not heard of this community before. Before my time, I guess. The idea of publishing something or not is rather interesting. It presumably encouraged much higher quality content.
> It presumably encouraged much higher quality content.
Haha, oh boy. You're talking about k5, man. We practically prided ourselves on terrible and meta content. But yes, some of the longer-form stuff was truly interesting. You had to submit to some pretty grueling dissection of your work by a broad group of people, though, and I only front paged a couple articles because I didn't truly understand what was going on.
I actually landed on k5 a couple months ago and read stuff I wrote in 2001, long before I realized the permanency of the Web. It was an interesting time travel experience to a long, long time ago. I'm half glad it's dead so that portion of my life slowly fades into history/archive, because I honestly have no idea what I was talking about half the time.
+1 FP, dammit rusty