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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 hprotagonist »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #57
hprotagonist wrote: post #41

zombo.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.

:)

i shall treasure this moment forever, with hot grits.

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

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Post by geocrasher »

The old slashdot.org

The old digg.com

Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them?

My ealiest memories were pre-net, on Prodigy and AOL, long before they were 'net connected and could email each other. I learned what connectivity was at 2400 baud. I didn't discover BBS's until much later, around 1993-4,and was at 14.4k at that point. I never really understood fidonet, but played some of the BBS games and downloaded some warez from a "31337" BBS with a backdoor whose login was "elite". At least the sysop didn't call himself "Crash Override".

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

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Post by mynegation »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #56
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.

Me too.

Rob, thank you for Slashdot, it was my first tech forum.

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Post by smcameron »

myvirtualband.com (2005 or so). It was essentially a forum plus an ftp server. The idea was people would record some tracks, upload to the ftp server, and start a thread, then other people would add on to the track and build up a song or several songs. Everything was by default CC-BY-SA licensed. Also everything was very open, you could see all the threads and all the parts, there weren't any private threads. There are other things kind of like it still (it got sold and became kompoz.com, but that's very very different and not at all the same -- it's much more focused on "bands" and not on freewheeling collaboration, or at least was like that last time I looked.)
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