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Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#282I miss Google from when it first started getting popular and overtaking Alta Vista and the other search engines. It feels weird to say now, but it truly felt like magic how it provided such better search results than its competitors. I wasn't tied to any one search engine then, and many of my searches were done on multiple search engines, with lots of wading through results to _attempt_ to find relevance. But with Go…
Yes, at the time the magic was also clean and uncorrupted by SEO — Google’s algorithm sidestepped the SEO targeted at simpler search engines. And then the arms race began to get to the top of google’s search results, which probably encumbers the algorithm today.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#283#hack on efnet
Old-school MUDs.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#284Many have already mentioned Slashdot. Ultima Online isn't a website but, for me, is synonymous with the earlier days of the net. I guess it's still around, but I played during the beta and when it first came out. There was something so exciting about it. It was all such a new experience. I also miss the original Rainbow Six (and Rogue Spear). Loved the gameplay (stealth, planning a mission, etc.) and it brings back m…
The first game I ever played online was R6. Kids these days don't know the joy of finding a cable host so you could do 2v2 with tolerable lag, nor what it was like to fill someone up with a mag and for them to fall over dead 10 seconds later. I think part of the joy of that was the imagination of how cool it would be if it all worked right vs the actual experience, but yeah, I'll never forget it. I dunno why but I'll never forget one time playing with this guy isoplus. I don't know we even communicated, nor if we played more than a single game together, but isoplus, wherever you are, be well.
You ever play Tribes?
UO. Wow. It's really another experience that can't be recreated. So incredibly magical. EverQuest and Asheron's Call were similarly formative experiences. I never could have thought at the time that massively multiplayer games would seem boring and even lame (what, I've gotta play with people?) now.
My parents would make sure I wasn't sneaking on EQ late at night by picking up the phone next to their bed to make sure I wasn't on the phone line.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#285Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#286I miss kuro5hin, which had a very interesting way of submitting content for peer review. Unfortunately it was overrun by trolls and eventually closed.
I miss Jyte, which was a weird side project by the company janrain, where you just make random statements and people vote whether or not they agree with the statement, and can post comments.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#287World New York, long gone, but hand curated interesting stories :till about 2000. I still miss it.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991129051036/http://www.worldn...
Memepool. Another curated story site. Silly but fun.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000301230131/http://www.memepo...
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#288GameSpy 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
Why is this just so much more fun than trying things online?
I bought so many games because I became addicted to the demos, particularly a few Sierra games.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#289Zombo.com
Hands down