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Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by malfist »

myself248 wrote: post #48
flexagoon wrote: post #18

Why are "personal homepages" listed as dead? Sure, they're not as ubiquitous as they used to be, but almost every tech-adjacent person I know has one. Webrings and guestbooks are also very much still a thing. I'd say they are far from dead.

They used to be part of your ISP. You got a usenet server, and a mail server and a web server with a certain amount of space, just as part of signing up. This meant that everyone had one, you didn't have to go sign up somewhere else. You still could if you wanted to have a URL that didn't have your ISP's name in it.

Did they? I've been around for ages (I know the dial up tone by heart). My early ISPs at best offered a mailbox (not a mail server), no web server, Usenet was extra.

And few people used the ISP mailbox because you couldn't take it with you when you left. Hell, I got my gmail during the invite only era

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by bozdemir »

p4bl0 wrote: post #47

This is missing so much things that immediately comes to my mind (such as Voilà, Caramail, Multimania, Mygale, Radio.Blog.Club, Skyblog, Motion Twin's Flash games, etc.). I think those and many others are too local in the real world to be of any significance for a mostly US-centric history (my pov is based in France). Still, this brought up a lot of memories!

thnx for the feedback, will be adding them too.

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Post by bozdemir »

pxoe wrote: post #37

Maybe there can be some kinda suggestion box and a voting system for suggestions or existing things? Like an open suggestion box, where people could submit potential entries and vote on whether they belong there and are dead or not. And for existing entries, to vote on whether something is truly dead or not, like 'yep, this is dead', or 'nope, this is still alive' (some things may be less popular, but that's not them…

this is a great suggestion, added to the roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by bozdemir »

pxoe wrote: post #40
pxoe wrote: post #37

Maybe there can be some kinda suggestion box and a voting system for suggestions or existing things? Like an open suggestion box, where people could submit potential entries and vote on whether they belong there and are dead or not. And for existing entries, to vote on whether something is truly dead or not, like 'yep, this is dead', or 'nope, this is still alive' (some things may be less popular, but that's not them…

also, 'Coming up in the graveyard' makes it sound like something's gonna arrive here like it's newly dead, like it's about to be shutdown with a deadline, when it's just anniversaries, which really should be clearer at the top of that box

same, added to the roadmap, thank you.
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