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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 pdepip »

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…

This game had such a profound impact on my life. When we were in elementary school, everybody in my town seemed to play and a lot of friendships I still have today were formed there. Private servers (moparscape.org) were the reason I got into programming, and I've been working as a software engineer for 4 years now. I didn't study it in school either, was strictly taught on runescape forums. I still check in from time to time, and can still navigate that world blindfolded.

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

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Post by seneca »

Not a website, and for me mostly in the era before websites became as prolific, but MUDs are what I miss about the old internet. I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but I used to be able to spend countless hours in the old terminal based games. Some of them were far more exhilarating than any video game I've ever played.

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

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Post by prepend »

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... :)

What do you think were the two biggest reasons? How do you think it could have turned out differently to still have a site today with the same spirit?

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Post by topkai22 »

GameSpy and the planet network, especially thier hosting / match making systems. Maybe it was just being able to know a couple servers and run into the same people over and over, but I remember liking that a lot.

The Happy Puppy games site.

Not really the web, but the original RealPlayer surfaced some amazing content for the time. I was able to watch Russian news, which while I didn't understand a single word was pretty amazing for a cold war obsessed kid

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Post by freediver »

seneca wrote: post #163

Not a website, and for me mostly in the era before websites became as prolific, but MUDs are what I miss about the old internet. I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but I used to be able to spend countless hours in the old terminal based games. Some of them were far more exhilarating than any video game I've ever played.

I rediscovered MUDs thanks to the lockdown. My buddies and I play the same MUD we played 1995-1998. 25 years ago! So much fun.

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

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Post by dicknuckle »

dlbucci wrote: post #155

Anyone 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…

I believe Cartoon Network still has a bunch of games up. I can remember playing Ed Edd n Eddy snow fort. just played it maybe 2 years ago
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