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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 lukejduncan »

geocrasher wrote: post #73

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…

My earliest memories are CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL. I remember AOL had a file share like service where you could search for and download images. I’d spend hours downloading a single Batman logo or Star Wars still. What stands out to me was when I went to work with my dad once and they had internet in a browser without having to connect to something first. My mind was blown. I was in elementary school at the time.

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

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Post by cambalache »

geocrasher wrote: post #73

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…

The old Slashdot was orders of magnitude better than HN -I am not going to even mention Reddit-. For all its lame jokes it was filled with people who actually loved technology and science and the moderation system was very solid.

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

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Post by cambalache »

cmdrtaco wrote: post #61
smsm42 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have a few theories... :)

The man the myth the legend!

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

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Post by adingus »

pensv0 wrote: post #21
thomk wrote: post #9

https://everything2.com/ which, amazingly is still up and running.

I remember it! Completely unrelated but somethingaweful.com was really hilarious back then. back when meme wasn't a thing.

Back when memes were just called "image macros". Something Awful is still going but there is nothing remotely funny or new there.

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

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Post by epmaybe »

chrisandchips wrote: post #54

Old 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…

I'd try it again, the popularity has gone way up - last I checked, it is at >100k concurrent players on line.

It's definitely lost some of the nostalgia, but it makes up for it with a load of new content.

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

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Post by ksec »

api wrote: post #49

Yahoo in the mid to late 90s. I've wondered if there might not be a renewed niche for a curated site directory, preferably as a non profit and with no comments. I miss the web then in general. It was full of basically honest information rich stuff.

>I miss the web then in general. It was full of basically honest information rich stuff.

Completely Agree. People use to share honest information, no conflict of interest, and doing so purely because of passion.

Now that got me thinking. Did the introduction of Web Ads in large, generating vast amount of profits leading to SEO, page spam, content farm and generally lower quality of information?

So in good intention, we hope the web to have a sustainable ad business model, has actually lead to the fall on quality of the web?

Or would the web still have been like today even if we had no ads.

I am not sure if this is true, but this could be another example of good intention leads to bad outcome.

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