birchy
Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still aro...
on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:37PM (#18245726)
I forget what it was called, or even who had it (a social media site?, maybe Blogger?), but it was a service that slideshowed images that users were uploading. It was a good way to waste time. It was a site that seemed to have users that would post interesting images, and it was fun to see some of them. You could pause it, I believe.
Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still aro...
on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:55PM (#18245565)
Eudora email client. I still use one of the last versions. I don't know how I'd function without the filing systems and filtering features, as well as the easy to manage multiple POP accounts ("personalties") and the templates ("stationary"). It just makes juggling everything so much easier.
Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still aro...
on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:58PM (#18234664)
Agree.
For a few years, almost anyone could create a filing system for whatever they were interested in or depended on. An online version would be dope.
(I see I called HyperTalk "HyperText". Oops...)
Re:Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still aro...
on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:36AM (#18227144)
The scripting language for the Macintosh's rolodex-type database (Hypercard) called "HyperText". I'm not aware of any more natural language scripting tool before or since. I can still write code in it, some two decades later...
For example:
'put the first character of the third word of line 5 of card field "sometext" into theChar'
or
'put the value of card field "typehere" * 1.25 into theValue'