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Ask HN: What old, closed websites/web apps do you miss, and why?
Sites like Dopplr, Muxtape, and other sites that were once popular, then got "incredible journey'd", or bought, or both.
And no, Klout doesn't count :P
- ilamont 9y agofuckedcompany.com I don't know how @Pud was able to get all of the dirt that he did and wrap it up into such funny headlines, but he did and it was great while it lasted. Sample from 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20011108145149/http://www.fuckedcompany.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20011108145149/http://www.fucked...
- znpy 9y agoMSN Messenger. It was light-years ahead of its time and super fun. Microsoft should revive it to compete with modern messenger apps (cough cough... whatsapp ... cough cough). Now, my memories might be biased because I was a teenager at the time, but I remember it to be extremely configurable and highly interactive. Paired with some useful cloud service (some of which microsoft is already offering, like outlook/live) something very nice could come out.
- Mister_X 9y agoFiretalk. I was an early adopter in '97, it used VoIP for slightly laggy communications, it was really neat for the time, seemed like the future had arrived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetalk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetalk