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The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by czardoz »

Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now":

> It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke.

> FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates.

> The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so.

> If FB gets sold for $6 billion, that means the new owning company would need to make $500 million a year for 12 years(!) to break even.

> Frankly, the Internet will probably be drastically different a decade from now.

> FB doesn't even make $50 million a year, who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Facebook by spending that much money?

> I swear some of these big companies just like throwing money at things. Yes, the dot-com bubble is here once again.

Original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165

Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by frik »

Reddit and HN look almost the same, only little web theme changes. Look how great the HN stories were, all around startups - no corporate PR nor offtopic - want it back :) http://web.archive.org/web/20070707020853/http://news.ycombi...

One of the stories "PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system? (reddit.com)": http://web.archive.org/web/20070714221535/http://news.ycombi...

Another story was about Justin.tv, nowadays know as Twitch: http://web.archive.org/web/20070708190608/http://news.ycombi...

Look at Apple.com, the introduction to the first iPhone. Notice the YouTube app on iOS 1-4 looked like a vintage CRT TV, I remember it.

IMDb received a new CSS stylesheet, and the invaluable comments system got unfortunately removed - otherwise little changes.

YouTube changed a lot. Ten years ago it looks still like the early days before Google.

Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by hhmc »

bitwize wrote: post #7

popular subreddits: * programming * science Oh, how times have changed.

The 'race to the bottom' of reddit has been fascinating to watch. I think it clearly demonstrates that without moderation popular forums will necessarily devolve to lowest common denominator content. (I do, however, appreciate there are still quality subreddits).

Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by frik »

thangngoc89 wrote: post #5

I really like the idea, and looking at Youtube interface 10 years ago remind me of the time when I started writing small programs. But I'm disappointing that the website doesn't use SSL at all.

It just links to Archive.org, and spoofs the address bar. So the content is 100% loaded from Archive.org. A very trivial website, but interesting looking back for a few minutes nevertheless. You can do the same with a more complex interface on Archive.org.
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