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Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803. https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348
Slashdot was fun... But then somehow it stopped to be. Not sure even what happened. Posting as user 1XXX :)
Boys those were the days. Getting up at 4AM to coordinate an attack against Amello. Man I miss the internet!
Deoxy.org, it's been offline for years now. There was a mirror running at Reoxy.org but that too has gone down. I comment here because there was a wonderful IRC community there that I lost contact with when Deoxy went down, and I'd love to find it again. edit: sp
The Deoxyribonucleic Autonomous Zone!
Like me, I know the first thing that popped into your mind when you saw this thread is Deoxy.
It was a special place and an amazing website. A work of art. It was everything awesome about the old web in a nutshell.
I miss the word game Acrophobia (I think it was an IRC game originally, but there was a good webapp version where I wasted more time than I'd like to admit)
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…
I do love HN, but it is still part of YC and allows some commercial activity and I feel at times goes overboard on flagging certain kind of discussions and comments (I'm not referring to obvious trolling and unsavory language).
Doesn't seem to be around anymore unfortunately.
It was right up there with my hard copy of Lynda Weinman’s web design book I picked up at Computer Literacy.
Old, not evil Google
Absence of FB
Geocities
Cricinfo
Slashdot
Codeguru/Codeproject
https://web.archive.org/web/20000601000000*/http://lanphes.v...
It barely works in 2020, but it had things that interested me, like silly videos. Those would go on YouTube today. Google barely existed at the time, so everything/nothing sites were early aggregators that filled the gaps in search engines and directories. They were full of one person's idea of interesting and/or useful.