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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 2 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.548s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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Towaway69 ◴[12 Oct 25 04:16 UTC] No.45555172[source]▶
The information superhighway

The internet before advertising, artificial intelligence, social media and bots. When folks created startups in their bedrooms or garages. The days when google slogan was “don’t be evil”.

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1. username223 ◴[12 Oct 25 07:37 UTC] No.45556114[source]▶
AKA "back when Marc Andreessen had hair and not enough money to build an apocalypse bunker on a personal island."
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2. Towaway69 ◴[12 Oct 25 07:48 UTC] No.45556186[source]▶
And when no one knew you were a dog and neither did they care.

Animated gifs of cat, banner bars and pixels cost one dollar, until a one million were sold.

And it all ran on Chuck Norris' personal computer.