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Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#62Interleaf, an electronic document application that did (nearly) everything Word does but better. Repaginate a 2000 page document, according to rules that you know will not place graphics hanging halfway off the page? Create a table of contents in seconds across several books? Lisp extension language? It was very good. All before Windows 2, and on UNIX workstations. The current document creation tools just make me want to cry.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#63Visual Basic 3.0 Any version of Turbo Pascal or Delphi. dBase II.
Visual Studio's debugger still smokes anything I've used since. You could literally drag the program counter to the point you wanted, rewrite your code, and start stepping through it again. That, and the ability to double click on a damned button and see what it did... What a golden era.
> drag the program counter to the point you wanted, rewrite your code, and start stepping through it again
You can still do that in .Net if you (even temporarily) target x86 instead of x64.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#64Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#65Visual Basic 3.0 Any version of Turbo Pascal or Delphi. dBase II.
Visual Studio's debugger still smokes anything I've used since. You could literally drag the program counter to the point you wanted, rewrite your code, and start stepping through it again. That, and the ability to double click on a damned button and see what it did... What a golden era.
Do you mean the Visual Basic IDE (VB 1-6). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic
Only the dotNet based VB.Net is available in Visual Studio since 2002, with the Visual Studio .Net which was completely rewritten since the 1998's Visual Studio 6.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#66The internet when it was all web sites and I just learned about google. Just before everyone and their dog got a "blog" and way before Facebook and Twitter.
I actually see blogs as remnants of what the Internet used to be. Especially in an age where click bait headlines, copy-paste and memes seems to be what drives most "media" outside of big dogs like the NYT.
Some of the most interesting sites I visit these days are blogs, written by people with a passion for what they do.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#67The internet when it was all web sites and I just learned about google. Just before everyone and their dog got a "blog" and way before Facebook and Twitter.
There is a way to get that feeling back: http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#68Deluxe Paint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint
ArtGem was a nice spiritual successor but sadly it's gone too: http://www.rlvision.com/artgem_about.asp
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#69Microsoft My Phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Phone It would even backup my SMSes and let me search through them in an online interface. But then MS decided to shut it down within few months of me buying a phone because of this particular feature. Well, MS does it often.
If you set up Google Voice on your phone, it satisfies that specific feature that you mention.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#70Windows 7 UI
Have you tried any alternative windows shells yet? (as in full desktop replacements) I remember being quite happy running bluebox around the win2k era, but it seems there's still a few that work with recent versions.
Projects like http://litestep.info/ for example (it can be reskinned so it doesn't look like early 2000s unix)