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

slashdot

shoutcast

pricewatch

anandtech - now it has such a sterile, corporate feel - back in the day in addition to reviews they'd do write-ups on their own infrastructure - not in the nebulous sense, but actually step by step, detailing what they were running (ColdFusion at the time as I recall)

allaire.com (no longer exists) - before Github or any of the modern package managers were a thing, and before anything conceived of frontend components, ColdFusion's custom tags seem to encompass a lot of great ideas that today seem obvious, but not so much in the late 90s. I'd spend hours browsing through their custom tag directory

Not a website, but I miss the heyday of IRC.

It still exists, sort of, as https://www.einet.net/ .

It was such a nice community. We hosted Hours of Verge (HoV!) events from time to time, usually from 24 to 72 hours long, to team up and build games around a theme, and voted for the best afterwards. It was so fun to play the other games created. Yes, there are other sites and communities that still do that but Verge was dear to me and what really got me started into development.

I met some awesome people that turned out to be brilliant devs in AAA games and composers that made songs for many cool games such as Unreal.

Edit: Fixed "HoV" casing, very important :-)

I also came to love penny arcade and the filthy movie reviews linked off slashdot homepage. Thanks for your effort.