Crossties. It was a relational desktop for Windows 3.1 which could replace progman and allow you to set up associations with projects, contacts, etc -- for example, opening up someone's contact info would pull up the documents you were working on for them, etc. 20 years later, we still really don't have anything that can provide that sort of context on the desktop, or even worse, we don't have those kinds of relationships available for our phones.
Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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#132NCD - Norton Change Directory. Using OSX now.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#133Chrome, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Firefox. I don't know quite where it went off the rails...
Chrome's still fast, but other browsers caught up, and more importantly web developers took advantage of the increase in performance and started getting away with writing more bloated websites, resulting in much of the speed gains being nullified. Just try to use Chrome or Firefox to browse relatively lightweight websites (e.g. GNU.org), they're amazingly fast compared to what browsers used to be like before Chrome c…
Just try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school."
Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.
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#134Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…
Read this again with the voice as Nick Offerman
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#135Borland stuff. Some websites (author died, they faded away/are not the bleeding edge any more etc.). A good example would be the old Searchlores website ( http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm )...apparently the original domain is now owned by some marketing company. Yikes.
SideKick!
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#136Google Reader
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#137The BeBox
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#138Chrome, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Firefox. I don't know quite where it went off the rails...
Chrome's still fast, but other browsers caught up, and more importantly web developers took advantage of the increase in performance and started getting away with writing more bloated websites, resulting in much of the speed gains being nullified. Just try to use Chrome or Firefox to browse relatively lightweight websites (e.g. GNU.org), they're amazingly fast compared to what browsers used to be like before Chrome c…
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#139Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google My Track, Delicious