Timmybighands, a sadly short lived humor site from the mst3000 guys.
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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#192New grounds. So many games and toys and shorts just lost. Even now I haven't found comparable games on Android.
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#193i did finally stop randomly trying to go to google reader
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#194The 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.
> I am not going to even mention Reddit
You mean you don’t enjoy the current -
> With Joe Biden’s campaign in freefall amid concerns about his declining mental health and new sexual assault allegations, remember this: it’s a good time to note that Bernie’s on the ballot.
- front page news Reddit?
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#195yerf.org and more recently, webcomicunderdogs.com, all the webcomics discussion has vanished into private discords or facebook groups or forums run by the comics-on-your-phone companies and I just do not vibe with any of those methods of communicating...
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Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#196I was quite fond of Kuro5hin.org, a discussion community that just kind of petered out.
It was fun but was a pretty small community.
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#197Anyone 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
Nice! I remember a Halloween game I really liked. I think it was Kids Next Door? You had to pay to play more levels at a certain point though...
On that note, I think Nickelodeon actually owns (or bought) Addicting Games, but I don't think it's the same these days...
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#198There was one site that had something like 100(?) brain teaser exercises - I suppose you could also call them puzzles - which became successively more difficult as you moved on (ie, hours to figure out just one of them). Each was distinct and challenged you in a different way. I only used the site once, around the early 2000s, but I forgot its name and never found it again.
Was is programming focused?
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#199Some of the great old Flash stuff, homestarrunner.com was like an endless fount of content and I remember there being some really fun one-off games at the original Macromedia site.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#200I miss a site called ebay.com that was full of people selling second-hand goods. It was replaced by a site selling Chinese knockoffs of the thing you want to buy. Then there was this other site that sold books and CDs called Amazon, they did a similar thing. I really enjoyed browsing suggestions back then. Finally froogle, superficially similar to google shopping that replaced it, but it actually helped you find thin…
Those sellers never left eBay. It just got harder to find them among the noise. I still frequently have that great "old eBay" experience today when buying from sub-100-feedback sellers.
I've found that if you restrict purchases to goods in "preowned" condition for a lot of things you basically get the same Ebay as before.
The tricky part is that there's a lot of people selling preowned goods as "new", usually they're items they purchased or received as a gift they never used. I think they're trying to emphasize the unused nature of the items, but nowadays they just get lost in the noise of direct-from-the-factory items.