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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by jdkee on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:07PM (#22982003)
Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by smsm42 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:36PM (#22982222)
Slashdot was fun... But then somehow it stopped to be. Not sure even what happened.

Posting as user 1XXX :)

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by cmdrtaco on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:59PM (#22982795)
I have a few theories... :)
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by prepend on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:19PM (#22983738)
What do you think were the two biggest reasons? How do you think it could have turned out differently to still have a site today with the same spirit?
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by cambalache on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:51PM (#22983557)
The man the myth the legend!
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by tenebrisalietum on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:25PM (#22983784)
When CmdrTaco left the site changed.
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by cmdrtaco on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:59PM (#22982790)
bow
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by pensv0 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:23PM (#22982122)
Good times. I frequent box.sk for hacker type info too.
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