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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 cmdrtaco »

smsm42 wrote: post #33
jdkee wrote: post #13

Slashdot. 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

Slashdot was fun... But then somehow it stopped to be. Not sure even what happened. Posting as user 1XXX :)

I have a few theories... :)

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

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Post by makosdv »

osrec wrote: post #52
vardump wrote: post #7

1996 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?

I wish they would enable an advanced mode or something.

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

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Post by rrmm »

osrec wrote: post #52
vardump wrote: post #7

1996 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?

I used altavista long after google had become the hip new thing. I liked it, because for certain searches I knew what results I would get back. Which is to say I knew how to look for things I wanted to find.

Google was smarter but seemed less intuitive to me to get at what I wanted.

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

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Post by scythe »

I miss forumer.com probably more than anything. Sure, the messageboard software was atrocious. And maybe I have the usual rosy retrospection. But I remember a much more colloquial and friendly atmosphere when discussion forums weren't gamified with likes and pings.

Newgrounds pre-YouTube was also a lot of fun.

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