Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by peterlk on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:12AM (#22984343)

Your comment is vely insightful. I first played runescape in 2001 I think (and then I came back later), and I had never thought about it the way you describe it. I too learned a lot of life skills: scamming, bartering, arbitrage, and quite a few social interaction skills despite being online. My best friend had some weird pubescent (text-based) sexual things with weirdos claiming to also be 13, or whatever we were at the time. It was a precursor to AIM for my small group of friends. Scripting/botting that game taught me a lot of basic skills in computers.

I wonder what today's version is. Maybe Fortnite?

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by chrisandchips on Sunday April 26, 2020 @10:18AM (#22987319)

Maybe. Although I think it really takes a multiplayer open world (possibly an RPG?) to even get close. I wonder if people who use to play WOW back in the hayday of its popularity feel this sort of nostalgia too

Also, hahahaha, nothing better than walking about and seeing the text “selling GF 10k” wave around in raindbow text

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