Bonsai Kittens. The site was clever and the reactions from animal-rights groups were even better.
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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#182GameSpy 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 pre…
And not really web at all, but I miss buying a gaming magazine at the grocery store and getting a cd full of demos included with it. That was fun
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#183baidu.com
Back in 2005, I used think that an MTK phone can browse baidu.com flawlessly is a very powerful phone, until I had a Nokia 6120c with S60 system that opens any website flawlessly.
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#184It's not a website but I loved Napster. When you were downloading a song and then could browse the filesystem of that user to see what they had. It was like opening a cave with treasure inside and finding all these songs that might not have been available online at all at that point.
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#185Stile Project
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#186adcritic.com
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#187jodi.org was a delightful rabbit hole of pure art
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#188wastedyouth.org - a fun community with art and programming tutorials. I think the creator also made DeviantArt.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010206203747/http://www.wasted...
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#189The gams on gamevial.com
They had an early MMORPG old religiously style to it.
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#190Space Jam Oh wait, it's still there. And still the same as 1996. https://spacejam.com/
It’s cool how Warner Brothers added a “we updated our terms of service” thing to it but otherwise left it alone. Even a soulless corporation respects a legendary website.
That answers the “did someone forget to turn off the server?” question.