Mirsky's Worst of the Web, because Gabocorp and FuckedCompany were already mentioned =)
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?
#62The Keepers of Lists.
Each day there would be a list title, and the public would add funny items to the list.
Things like "Top xx reasons a grilled cheese is better than a taco."
People could vote entries up and down, helping bury the spam.
I'm not sure when it went away, but I don't think it survived past about 1999.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#63Forums in general. I'd just check them daily(ish) and participate in various conversations. These days this kind of communication is either in chat groups on Telegram or ephemeral threads on HN and reddit. Rarely are those threads referred back to, unlike topics were. I still do things online that last, such as blogging, pushing to Github and writing stackexchange answers, but none of those are very informal and incl…
I used to be the Administrator of several different iPBFree forums before iPBFree suddenly disappeared.
I really miss the graphics/writing communities that were scattered around forums - it's actually how I learned how to use Photoshop and do front-end programming with HTML/CSS/JS!
Messing around with free forums is what landed me my career today - but forums are all but dead due to social media platforms. Even dedicated forums for games are either dead or have moved to Reddit.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#64stickdeath.com Can't find a mirror or archive of it, nor the creator. :(
I'd forgotten about this. Sad that it's not around anymore.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#65OLGA.net : On-Line Guitar Archive. Basically a collection of text files people submitted of guitar tablature for popular songs. If I remember right, they got slammed with DMCA and were forced to shut down. Now we have fantastic tools like Songsterr and anti-user pieces of shit like UltimateGuitar.
I miss OLGA.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#66* Personal websites from before blogging become commonplace - often part of web rings where you could visit one after another page. * My own and my friends silly pages. * Not a page but a feature: referrers weren't blocked so we could check who sent us traffic and visit their pages. * searching with the old google.com before SEO became popular.
"searching with the old google.com before SEO became popular"
I wish I could give people these days an idea of what this was like.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#67Eric Conveys an Emotion, still there but not updated
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#68stickdeath.com Can't find a mirror or archive of it, nor the creator. :(
I'm not sure if they still exist as I won't risk checking them at work, but stickdeath.com, albinoblacksheep.com, neopets.com, rotten.com, portalofevil.com, lemonadestand.com, oilwars/gangwars and others were a big part of my middle school years
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#69Forums in general. I'd just check them daily(ish) and participate in various conversations. These days this kind of communication is either in chat groups on Telegram or ephemeral threads on HN and reddit. Rarely are those threads referred back to, unlike topics were. I still do things online that last, such as blogging, pushing to Github and writing stackexchange answers, but none of those are very informal and incl…
I used to spend many hours daily on entensity forums and something awful forums. I miss that kind of environment which has been replaced by reddit etc, which is not the same.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#70What.CD - not because of the free music but because of the community, recommendations by friends and discovering new music on a daily basis. Right now I’m just listening to the “For You” section of Apple Music and very rarely discover something new. I also don’t really have a way to keep things that I like around as there’s no nice way to put things in your library if you don’t use iCloud Music library. Streaming ser…
A very large portion of the WCD community, especially the more active members of the forums, have largely moved to [Redacted] or [God of Music]. In case you never found out and would like to possibly re-unite with some old friends from WCD.
I’m on all of these and it’s not the same and I think it will never be. Mostly because torrenting in general is getting less popular and with the raise of streaming services and them getting “good enough” a lot of heavy users including myself moved on. It was also apparent in the forum activity on What that went down steadily over the last years. I also experienced that a lot of my social circle wasn’t that active any more at the end as they got older / out of university and started to work. I used to be on the site for hours every day interviewing people but once you start working you just want to do something that doesn’t involve a screen in the evening, at least in my experience.