Repeating the fun question originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284918
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?
#2Google
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#3I frequented tutorialforums.com around 2004. It was quite big around at that time but sadly the site went down for months when they decided to rewrite their forum from scratch .
By the time it was up, most of the regulars already moved on.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#4I was quite fond of Kuro5hin.org, a discussion community that just kind of petered out.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#5Maybe around 2006-2010, http://ajaxian.com/ was an inspiring aggregate of web related articles that I would visit daily.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#6suck.com, stellar.io, yahoo.com's directory
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#71996 or so: altavista.digital.com! I loved (and got pretty good at due to daily training, heh) using boolean operations to find whatever I wanted. No Google back then.
Nowadays Google finds so much noise that I wish I could use boolean operations once again to weed out the spam.
Also liked slashdot.org in its early days.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#8Not a specific website, but the concept of web rings that tied Geocities and Tripod sites together were another a lot of fun.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#9https://everything2.com/ which, amazingly is still up and running.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#10K10k.net
Linkedup.com
The link dumps of all the new and exciting shit people were doing with the internet.