Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by pensv0 » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

thomk wrote: post #9

https://everything2.com/ which, amazingly is still up and running.

I remember it!

Completely unrelated but somethingaweful.com was really hilarious back then. back when meme wasn't a thing.

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

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Post by pensv0 » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

jdkee wrote: post #13

Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803. https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348

Good times. I frequent box.sk for hacker type info too.

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

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Post by hnhg » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

fuckedcompany

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

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Post by argimenes » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:25 PM UTC

Geocities and AngelFire.

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

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Post by dot » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC

zfilter, it was basically reddit of the early 2000s:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020802140849/http://www.zfilte...

Also, Metafilter and Fark. Both still exist to my surprise.

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

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Post by karmakaze » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

Any search engine that can return exact matches ranked my match relevance.

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

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Post by hit8run » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

audiogalaxy - one was able to find rare remixes that were not available anywhere else and download them as soon as a user with that file came online.

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

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Post by kobc » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:30 PM UTC

It’s been on my mind lately and I’d be surprised if anyone else recognized these:

Information Leak

SoCal (ProBoards)

Too Smart Guys/PSP Hacking 101

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

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Post by joshfraser » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:30 PM UTC

digg.com. still exists, but it's not the same.

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

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Post by digitalsanctum » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

circa 1999 I was a big fan of Jakob Nielsen's books and website about web usability. The website he had back then had all sorts of advice around usability which I attribute, in part, to my success early in my career. I often wonder what he thinks of the web today with all of the design systems and frontend frameworks versus the simplicity of the 90s.