Re:The End of Big Twitter
by mtalantikite on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @03:34PM
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Yeah, I guess the takeaway is that Wired and Techcrunch have been terrible for a long time ;)
I still find both of those archive grabs more interesting. They're certainly not all posts just for the neckbeards, that's not what ever drew me to HN, but they don't lean so heavy towards "Show HN: Please look at my startup".
As long as we're taking random samples, let's see what, say, November 2010 looked like:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101119073443/http://news.ycomb...
How about March 2008? (I'm picking these arbitrarily...)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080327223917/http://news.ycomb...
If either of those front pages showed up today, people would be complaining very loudly about HN's steep decline.