Surprised no one mentioned StumbleUpon! I discovered many new, interesting things even though it was basically an web advertisement company.
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?
#362Many 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…
In case you're interested, I've recently ported Ultima Online to mobile via Unity+ClassicUO: https://github.com/voxelboy/mobileuo. I'll be publishing a blog post about it soon.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#363The 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 SomethingAwful for me. > Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them? They stopped having web pages and started having Xangas/Friendsters/Myspaces that had the networking feature built-in.
Photoshop Friday was kinda hit or miss, for for the funny ones they were really funny
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#364Many 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…
Oh the original Rainbow Six on PC was really really hard
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#365It's not a website, but I'm missing the old Usenet.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#366Surprised no one mentioned StumbleUpon! I discovered many new, interesting things even though it was basically an web advertisement company.
i met so incredible people all over the world because of stumbleupon. it was like a randomize effect artifact of late 2000's for me. :(
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#367I miss the Internet 1.0 culture which inspired a lot of classic sites. Before the corporates moved in it was nerdy, eccentric, intelligent, creative, hilarious, and sometimes literally insane.
Then e-commerce and adtech happened and it became a lot more homogenised and a lot less fun.
Usenet was a distillation of the culture and a crucible of madness. Yahoo Groups were (sometimes) a more grown up version.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#368Flash-based websites. There were some really good ones. I think to this day the fluidity of Flash-based sites can’t be matched. I’m still not sure why the security of Flash couldn’t be addressed. It was a conspiracy to destroy Flash and the HTML-only camp succeeded.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#369The 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 SomethingAwful for me. > Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them? They stopped having web pages and started having Xangas/Friendsters/Myspaces that had the networking feature built-in.
2000-2003 Something Awful was my favorite internet community/site ever. It's too bad about what happened with Ozma and Fistgrrl. Oh well.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#370freshmeat.net