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I'm shocked by the number of people calling a website founded in 2003 as "old school". That was 3 years after the dot-com bust!
by iso1631 6y ago
I'm shocked by the number of people calling a website founded in 2003 as "old school". That was 3 years after the dot-com bust!
- codingdave 6y agoPeople born during the dotcom bust are now old enough to be starting in this industry. I think that qualifies anything from even near that era as "old school"
- benibela 6y agoWe should bring back the webrings
- onemoresoop 6y agoI remember webrings and browsing around was so serendipitous. Id certainly welcome them back
- hundchenkatze 6y agoThere's a couple starting back up. https://geekring.net/ https://geekring.net/ https://weirdwidewebring.net/ https://weirdwidewebring.net/ https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ (not exactly a webring)
- zanderwohl 6y agowebring.js - who's got dibs on the javascript library?
- benibela 6y agoNo! For the old-school feel it must be without javascript
- toyg 6y agoThe web changed pretty dramatically around 2010, when the iphone and single-page apps took off and VPS became dirt cheap.
- ghaff 6y agoIt's not Web 1.0 but it was right in the middle of Web 2.0/read-write web. Mobile/Facebook/Twitter/etc. are collectively a whole new generation.