Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by logicuce » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:55 AM UTC

Microsoft My Phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Phone

It would even backup my SMSes and let me search through them in an online interface. But then MS decided to shut it down within few months of me buying a phone because of this particular feature.

Well, MS does it often.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by johnx123-up » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:57 AM UTC

1. Delphi and its community 2. OptiPerl http://www.xarka.com/optiperl/features.html

Though both are still available, not in use.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#23

Post by pknerd » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:57 AM UTC

Borland's Turbo C and Pascal

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by wmil » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:04 AM UTC

davidw wrote: post #12

Open source guy: pretty much everything I was using in 1996 is still around, but better.

Clearly you weren't a Gnome 2 fan.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by mod50ack » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

wmil wrote: post #24

davidw wrote: post #12

Open source guy: pretty much everything I was using in 1996 is still around, but better.

Clearly you weren't a Gnome 2 fan.

MATE rocks.

Although the original wasn't around in 96

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by johngossman » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

CygnusEd editor for Amiga. Thanks Bruce

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by asdf4life » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:07 AM UTC

BeOS

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by meritt » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:07 AM UTC

pknerd wrote: post #23

Borland's Turbo C and Pascal

Borland Turbo C++ was my first "real" programming language after GW-BASIC. Had some extremely heavy Tandy laptop ('portable computer' might be a better moniker) with a CGA monitor. Those were the days.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Post by starfire » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:10 AM UTC

rdio

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#30

Post by jonbaer » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:19 AM UTC

Modelworks JPad Pro ... https://archive.org/details/tucows_296665_JPad_Pro