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Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by aikinai »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #279
asveikau wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss the free software activism bent of old slashdot. There was so much optimism at Linux and others being the way of the future, and beating Microsoft at the desktop. I feel like the Unix enthusiast's shift to the Mac kind of killed some of that. If people think a desktop ui is a "solved problem" (by Apple), there end up fewer people interested in those kind of projects. Now it's pretty common for a free software…

It's nuts to me how much peole despised MS at the time. I remember getting a hacked/modded version of Halo 2 (2004) and it came with a picture of Gates with a bullet hole in his head. Which is sick and not appropriate, but people despised him. They've done a really good job of rehabilitating their image. Having grown up at the time, it's hard for me to see Gates and them as different than that. It does make me somewh…

Companies aren’t people though, and the people embracing it now might have very little overlap with the old stranglers.

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Post by syphilis2 »

The Applet Arcade https://web.archive.org/web/20020604024000/http://theshadowl... https://web.archive.org/web/19981201063456/http://members.ao... https://web.archive.org/web/19961222221629/http://www.serve....

Sometime in the mid to late 90s I came across the Applet Arcade. It's just a collection of Java applets maintained by a person who also runs a paranormal website (The Shadowlands http://theshadowlands.net/ ). I have yet to find its successor: The Javascript Arcade.

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Post by jsrcout »

brandonmenc wrote: post #112

fray.com - still around, but the old site is archived, not active theschwacorporation.com - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_(art) kuro5hin.org scottland (can't remember if it actually had a .com) - website of Scott Thompson, of Kids In The Hall

Schwa - thanks for reminding me! Absolute genius.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by aaron-lebo »

aikinai wrote: post #291
aaron-lebo wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nuts to me how much peole despised MS at the time. I remember getting a hacked/modded version of Halo 2 (2004) and it came with a picture of Gates with a bullet hole in his head. Which is sick and not appropriate, but people despised him. They've done a really good job of rehabilitating their image. Having grown up at the time, it's hard for me to see Gates and them as different than that. It does make me somewh…

Companies aren’t people though, and the people embracing it now might have very little overlap with the old stranglers.

It would make me feel a lot better if Gates didn't buddy with Epstein even after his first conviction for trafficking teenagers. I think MS, if it wants to have some respect, should basically disown him unless he has a legit and contrite apology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

It engrages and disgusts me it isn't a bigger deal.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

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Post by elihu »

duckfruit wrote: post #273

I miss JibJab. They're sort of still around, but they seem to have long since stopped making satirical flash animations they used to be famous for. Their Year in Review videos were hilarious and awesome back in the Bush & Obama eras. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmEP93NVTaw )

I miss that quality of political satire. This is the one I remember most: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc3MSS5Ydc
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