I miss the meticulously tagged and categorized databases of mod content for old games. Polycount for Quake models. Modsquad for Unreal Tournament mutators. That stuff.
A million phpbb boards.
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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#202I miss the original Audiogalaxy and Soulseek. I was broke lower income kid who liked music and discovered songs that forever changed my life. I have never experienced the same open exchange of music since then.
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#203Stumbleupon
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#204ICQ Old, not evil Google Absence of FB Geocities Cricinfo Slashdot Codeguru/Codeproject
ICQ makes me miss old software in general. In particular, programs that didn't roll their own GUI framework and just used vanilla UI widgets. Stuff that didn't bring in massive frameworks, just simple MFC/winforms apps that were peppy and seamlessly fit into the OS UI.
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#205circa 1999 I was a big fan of Jakob Nielsen's books and website about web usability. The website he had back then had all sorts of advice around usability which I attribute, in part, to my success early in my career. I often wonder what he thinks of the web today with all of the design systems and frontend frameworks versus the simplicity of the 90s.
His company is still kicking. Dunno how much day to day involvement he has:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-...
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#206I miss the original Audiogalaxy and Soulseek. I was broke lower income kid who liked music and discovered songs that forever changed my life. I have never experienced the same open exchange of music since then.
Soulseek is still pretty active these days
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#207- old GameFAQs (before the GameSpot merger)
- Homestar Runner
- YTMND
- Newgrounds
- ieatcrayons.com (a webcomic that 11-year-old me found very amusing)
finally, not a website, but Ragnarok Online was the first MMO I played and the one I have the best memories from
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#208worth1000.com, for the daily dose of amazing photoshop art.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#209I miss the original Audiogalaxy and Soulseek. I was broke lower income kid who liked music and discovered songs that forever changed my life. I have never experienced the same open exchange of music since then.
Audiogalaxy was great to discover new music.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#210- old GameFAQs (before the GameSpot merger) - Homestar Runner - YTMND - Newgrounds - ieatcrayons.com (a webcomic that 11-year-old me found very amusing) finally, not a website, but Ragnarok Online was the first MMO I played and the one I have the best memories from
You'll have to be more specific about GameFAQs. I use it extensively to track Game Boy game credits and release dates and it never fails to amaze me how much information is on there.