And animelayer.com. I stumbled upon the small site and while I was not a big anime guy, the people there were good fun
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?
#521996 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.
Do you feel the simplification (or perhaps, dumbing down) of search queries is a bad thing?
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#53&Totse
and the rest of NIRVANAnet
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#54Old school runescape. I played it as a kid and have never otherwise had such a wonderful and memorable experience playing a video game. Im quite young (23) so when I was playing it back in 2006-2008, I learned a LOT about life. Trading and bartering, getting scammed, talking to people to get help moving forward in the game, etc. Most of my friends who used to play agree.
You can still play, they brought it back a few years ago, but the community and popularity - as well as the feeling of discovery I used to get while playing - won’t ever come back
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#55I miss The Weasel, an old mac warez and crack site from the 90s. It had mp3s and midis too I think. "Eagles may soar but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines" Seems like it wasn't archived, sadly.
I remember Silicon Toad's page. Lots of cracking software, docs, etc.
I should dig around and see if I still have my archive of that one. I'm sure I saved everything there in 1998 or 1999.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#561996 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.
Me too.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#57zombo.com. it kind of sort of still exists, but I haven't had flash installed on any of my devices since about 2015. I was also around on Slashdot when Rob proposed. I was I think a sophomore or junior in high school, sprinting into the library between periods to refresh the page and see if she'd said yes or not.
:)
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#58https://everything2.com/ which, amazingly is still up and running.
But do you remember everything1?
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#59PerlMonks, and WikiWikiWeb.
Vroom is good people.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#60Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803. https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348
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