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Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#12The "Decapitate an Angel" page, of course.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#13Homestarrunner.com
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#14cjb.net - I forget if they only allowed http forwarding, or actually gave you a real DNS entry (might have been either?), but you could get a hostname.cjb.net for free, as long as you kept your account active.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#15It's too long ago for me to remember the site's name but the subscription to it came when you signed up for a free Hotmail account back in the late 90s.
You would get an email each day that would take you to the site where you had to solve a reasonably cryptic whodunnit. I've never been good at these sorts of things but I would spend ages reading the story trying to solve the riddle. Pretty fun but years later I can't remember its name and I do miss it from time to time. It was a comfort to know these puzzles were being created and solved in the background but now is no more.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#16fatbabies.com was a dotcom era gossip site for people working .com startups to spill the beans on the outrageous behavior at their companies. Often times the person trying to spill beans is turned inside out for being wrong in their position. Very sarcastic and stress relieving. And as side entertainment, you and your coworkers try figure out which posts are about your company.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#17www.fravia.org
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#18I'm still traumatized from the time I would spend on rotten.com
Haha yeah good memories.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#19fark.com even though its demise was relatively recent. I missed the early days when the site wasn't sanitized (and that content, or easy access to it, still felt novel). Felt like one of many "wild west" sites of that time. Before our advertising overlords had come into power.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#20Nothing, I think. The web has only improved over time.