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

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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feketegy ◴[12 Oct 25 08:08 UTC] No.45556307[source]▶
That part of the Internet still exists, it's just nobody visits those sites anymore.

Communities are moving back to early Internet-like chatrooms like IRC, but now it is Slack, Discord, and the like. Everything private.

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1. donatj ◴[12 Oct 25 10:25 UTC] No.45557040[source]▶
I really miss the like 8 year ago push where a lot of major projects were moving to IRC. It's too bad Freenode took the opportunity to jump the shark and killed the momentum.