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Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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#2hell.com, gabocorp.com
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#3I'm still traumatized from the time I would spend on rotten.com
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#4geocities and OG digg.com
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#5neverside.com // tutorialforums.com
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#6For people that respond, could you also give reasons to why you miss the site?
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#7av.com
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#8This was probably around 1995, I was a young kid just starting to be interested in computers and the internet, and we had a typical slow loading connection.
I remember at one point my dad and I found this random choose your own adventure set of webpages staring Paper Bag Head Man (or something similar) which often left him dead in comical ways. It wasn't a cartoon, just a photo of (presumably) the creator with a paper bag happy face on his head, with some descriptive text, that would take far too long to load on our slow connection.
It was one of the first "internet is weird" moments in my life, and it was fun exploring it with my dad. Ive remembered it in my adult life and have never been able to find any reference to it.
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#9Google reader, not really early days but I miss it very much.
When they stopped it I couldn't find a good alternative and my reading habits changed, now I don't read as many blogs as I did.
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#10I miss the old fandom communities, like pre-strikethru LJ. Currently the bulk of fandom activity takes place on Tumblr, which is awful for a variety of reasons (the platform as designed isn’t a good fit for the type of activity, and the community is terrible)