Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by speckx » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 12:48 PM UTC

Resurrect the Old Web
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Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by Baseappapk » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

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Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by wiether » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

I don't get HN's appeal for the bearblog platform?

If anything else, if one wants to resurrect the "Old Web", one shouldn't do it on someone else's platform.

Parts of the "Old Web" disappeared when the platforms hosting it stopped.

The brutal shutting down of Typepad should be another reminder of this reality: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/one-time-wordpress-c...

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by onion2k » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:35 PM UTC

No ads

I don't know what "Old Web" the author is remembering but when I was first paid to make a website in 1997, it had banner ads on it.

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by dmortin » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

What bothers me is that even some tech forums use Facebook groups and stuff, hiding the information in non-searchable silos.

Why can't at least tech people use only traditional forums which are easily searchable, readable without login, etc?

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by dfxm12 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

Back in its early days it was fresh and exciting, a fun way to connect with your friends that might be far away, or make new friends online.

This doesn't sound like blogs + rss, this sounds like phpBB + AOL instant messenger. Social media is at its best when real people are interacting with real people, not when real people are interacting with a blog post/tweet/etc., (and definitely not an algorithm)...

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by davey48016 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #4

No ads I don't know what "Old Web" the author is remembering but when I was first paid to make a website in 1997, it had banner ads on it.

Banner ads, pop up ads, pop under ads...If browsers added a feature, then websites used it to show you ads.

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by NetOpWibby » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #4

No ads I don't know what "Old Web" the author is remembering but when I was first paid to make a website in 1997, it had banner ads on it.

My first website was on Homestead (.com or .net?) was HEAVILY banner ad supported

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by NetOpWibby » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:40 PM UTC

dfxm12 wrote: post #6

Back in its early days it was fresh and exciting, a fun way to connect with your friends that might be far away, or make new friends online. This doesn't sound like blogs + rss, this sounds like phpBB + AOL instant messenger. Social media is at its best when real people are interacting with real people, not when real people are interacting with a blog post/tweet/etc., (and definitely not an algorithm)...

My favorite forum used vBulletin and I was using Miranda IM because I could find amazing themes for it on deviantART.

Man, what a time.

Re: Resurrect the Old Web

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Post by AndrewStephens » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 1:41 PM UTC

dfxm12 wrote: post #6

Back in its early days it was fresh and exciting, a fun way to connect with your friends that might be far away, or make new friends online. This doesn't sound like blogs + rss, this sounds like phpBB + AOL instant messenger. Social media is at its best when real people are interacting with real people, not when real people are interacting with a blog post/tweet/etc., (and definitely not an algorithm)...

All that is happening on Discord these days. It is a shame that this is not happening over open protocols but I doubt most people care.