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Show HN: Crayon, the web's first personalized newspaper (1995), relaunched

https://crayon.net/relaunch

In 1995 I co-built CRAYON (CReAte Your Own Newspaper) - the first personalized news service on the web. 650k people made papers. The Perl CGI site ran, barely, for 31 years. I've now rebuilt it: stories ranked by independent-source count instead of an editor or engagement algorithm, every side of every story on one page. Your 1996 password still works, and every subscriber can open their...

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