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Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s

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Re: Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s

#21

As someone who isn't old enough to have experienced this era of internet, the contrast of efficient utility for the user between this and modern news websites is really upsetting. :(

There were a lot of landing pages and link sites like this, because search and discovery was still pretty difficult.

One could argue it’s still difficult once you venture outside the big platforms or away from the algorithmic feeds.

Re: Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s

#25
post #12

101.27 KB to load the full page with images and scripts. Incredibly refreshing, maybe because it brings me back to simpler days in my life. :)

Small by today’s standards but back in y2k would still have taken about 24 seconds to load over the dial-up connection I had back then.

Re: Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s

#26
I really like it, the gadget and tech section had some pretty interesting news like Yahoo making their new agent Scout

I kind of wish, if we can have more sites like this/with the same UI/UX. Maybe someone can open source something like this. I wonder if someone can also use a source like https://news.kagi.com/ or even hackernews submissions to manually catalogue too.

I have never used netscape/am not technically of that era but this website really just spoke to me in a way :-)

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