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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?

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Post by edgarvaldes »

lacker wrote: post #25

I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly. I also…

It is interesting that you went from longer-form blogs to twitter.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by Zelphyr »

The one I miss is one that may still be around, but not for long since it was a Flash page. It was, if I recall, a demo page to highlight the designers skills. I don't even remember the name. It was an anime style video that ended with a girl standing on a cliff with flower pedals flowing along the breeze that was blowing her hair as she stared off in the distance. I would love to find that site.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by _bfhp »

sien wrote: post #32
lacker wrote: post #25

I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly. I also…

What did you try? I used Inoreader and it's now better than Google Reader ever was.

+1 for Inoreader. After Google Reader shut down there was a lull where no RSS reader was good enough or similar enough to be satisfactory, but Inoreader is now the proper replacement for me

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by dhardy »

lacker wrote: post #25

I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly. I also…

I feel your pain on loosing Google Reader. I have tried dozens of replacements and finally landed at https://digg.com/reader if you can believe that... Also, I am sure you have seen them but just incase you haven't - https://theoldreader.com/home was super similar to Google Reader.

Alas neither of these are the same but perhaps they will be "good enough".

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by chubot »

I have a lot of fond memories of Harmony Central. It was a guitar / musician / gear site. It had a bunch of gear reviews.

I pretty much learned to play guitar off that site and off the early web in general. I took one year of guitar lessons, and then after that it was all learning on the web. This was 1994-1997 or so.

EDIT: Woah I just checked and they're still around!

http://www.harmonycentral.com/

But they got acquired a long time ago, and the site changed. IIRC it was started by an MIT student, and was acquired around 2000.

Oh it appears that Harmony Central used to be owned by Guitar Center, and then Gibson Guitars in 2015. I had no idea!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Center

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