I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.
I thought that was basic common Internet knowledge, that Digg led straight to Reddit.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
They managed to break https://www.spacejam.com/ though. It redirects to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ which has a bad cert and then goes into a redirect loop. So broken after just 4 years
Hey give Disney a break they're a small company with only a few employees. Maybe tbe certifier is on vacation.
Looney toons is a Warner Brothers property, not Disney.
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#43Cool, well there goes my afternoon to watch Strong Bad Emails.
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#44I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.
Digg is being relaunched - with Alexis on board.
A bunch of the early internet brands are being rebranded/relaunched which is collectively is being branded as the nostalgic internet.
Napster, Limewire, Digg, GeoCities…to name a few
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#45Love Tom’s Diner, didn’t know it was used as an early mp3 benchmark.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking the same. this is a very american centric vision of the internet - especially when it comes to the websites mentioned
Works for me as a German, online since 96. Oh please yes create a version that applies to your cultural background and how you experienced the net!
what about https://web.archive.org/web/20010630195810/http://www.fireba... or studiVZ, knuddels, or even xing, for example?
now all the internet is basically an oligopoly, but in the late 90s and early 2000s there was much more variety, and any historiography of the early internet should consider that, indeed.
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#47I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.
Digg is being relaunched - with Alexis on board. A bunch of the early internet brands are being rebranded/relaunched which is collectively is being branded as the nostalgic internet. Napster, Limewire, Digg, GeoCities…to name a few
> A bunch of the early internet brands are being rebranded/relaunched
More like recycled to lend credence to dubious grifts and tangential services. Digg is all-in on AI; Napster is another paid music streaming service; Limewire is another file locker and an AI cryptocurrency¹; GeoCities I’m not aware of a revival.
> which is collectively is being branded as the nostalgic internet.
Nothing about that is nostalgic or remotely related to the old internet. The names are the same and some founders may have returned, but the values and technologies are entirely different.
¹ Whatever that even means in practice. Double-dip on a pile-on of grifts, can never have too many hyped technologies!
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#48For me, the greatest bit of nostalgia came from seeing the Netscape Navigator Meteors. (Going further I found this link, which also echoes how rare it is nowadays to see a working version
https://erynwells.me/blog/2023/08/netscape-meteors/ )
It has been a while & the browser has such a storied history. When I was a middle schooler, I remember my elder sibling (a college CS major) explaining the chatter around 'IE4 vs. Netscape' monopoly case enthusiastically. It was quite likely the biggest talking point among tech community back then, along with the Microsoft Antitrust litigation soon after.
By turn of the millennium, it was on its demise paving way for Mozilla Firefox (with its early dragon/godzilla icon). As I understand early Firefox also built onwards from Netscape codebase (which would have soon shuttered) as a starting point & took the open source path. The last Navigator version I used probably was packed with Netscape Communicator suite @ v6.1
Pure nostalgia. This brought back so many memories
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#49Missing the "under construction" gif, a visits counter, and... goatse.
So today you woke up and chose violence? :-)
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#50I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.
fark.com