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But do you remember everything1?
No sir, was there such a thing?
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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#1534chan was never good.
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My first language was a Pascal-like DSL, learned for the sole purpose of mining ores while I was at school. I think I should credit my salary to Jagex.
Kaitnieks SCAR right? I was pretty involved in the cheating scene for RuneScape since around 2001, which I credit with getting me in to tech.
That's the one! Wow. I credit that early exposure for the same.
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#155Anyone remember Joystiq? For a long time, I kept up with video game news through them, but I basically stopped caring about when they went down. Never found a site to scratch that same itch. Still instinctively went there as soon as I opened the browser for about a week.
From my early days, probably flash portals, like addicting games. Kongregate wasn't the same after GameStop bought them. I know Newgrounds is still alive and I still go there, but it's sad to see the traffic dwindle like it has (especially since Tom Full is one of my internet heros).
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#156Old 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…
FunOrb was another great site by Jagex; Arcanists in particular was a lot of fun. Sadly, they shut FunOrb down recently. Those games are probably lost to history.
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#157Deoxy.org - The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
It was a personal wiki of sorts about psychedelics, new age mysticism, anarchy, subversive philosophy, environmentalism, and obscure information.
It was still up until a few years ago. I haven’t found a complete archive. The archive here is fairly outdated: https://jacobsm.com/deoxy/deoxy.org/index.html (click the small links for “hi-res” or “low-res” framesets.)
Before it shut down the amount of content was huge, and everything was personally curated by the creator Dimitry Novus. Supposedly when Google Video shut down and lots of the YouTube links broke he got upset and stopped updating. After a while it disappeared.
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#158Riddler.com - it was a site in 96 through 99 or so that would have different puzzles and quizzes every day. It was artificial but without offensive ads.
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It was a stylised little world you could explore. Looked like kind of Victorian style and you could float around and chat to other visitors.
I discovered it when I was a kid learning about web design from magazines like .Net and Computer Arts (UK). I don’t think I’d ever seen anything so interactive in a web browser until that point.
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My first language was a Pascal-like DSL, learned for the sole purpose of mining ores while I was at school. I think I should credit my salary to Jagex.
Thats too funny. And honestly, the fact that the game translates to the real world directly like that just blows my mind. I met a guy at a hackthon during uni who ran Sals realm of runescape. He told me that the selling the website basically payed his (canadian) tuition in full
My Runescape money making adventures paid for most of my life, even to this day.