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#81
The old HP. The one that designed and built wonderful calculators like my ancient HP 42S. The calculator that still works 25+ years later, and just needs the occasional purchase of a few button cell batteries to keep it going.

The old HP probably would have been able to give Apple a good run for their money in smartphones and laptops.

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#82

Weatherspark. It's still around but a mere shadow of its former (flash-based) glory. Using every other weather site is agony.

Yes! Their charts/graphs were amazing to play with.

Using it today feels like a "Show HN" MVP version of their full product.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#83
Ensemble Studios, makers of Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2, and Age of Mythology, some of the best RTSs ever made. There are other great RTSs, but they're all great in different ways from the Age series, which nothing else resembles.

Microsoft bought them, and shut them down not long after for insufficient profits. Sigh.

Age of Empires IV is being made now since they noticed there's demand, but the studio they chose is a well-known clown collective. Hopes are not high.

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Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…

So true. So, so true.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#87

Picasa, the best image manager I have used. Nothing come close to it.

We're slowly getting closer, https://textile.photos/ our desktop app is in a readonly state in the github builds but the mobile app is coming along quickly. Follow here for progress updates, https://github.com/textileio/textile-go, it's where the desktop app is released.
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