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Thing about things that happened before you is you can never be a person who experienced them. That said, could be implemented as a rolling decade. The term i

Thing about things that happened before you is you can never be a person who experienced them. That said, could be implemented as a rolling decade. The term is “classic”. For cars that takes 25 years. Ten for tech seems fine.

ianai 6y ago
That would be accounts from 2011 and before.
- app4soft 6y ago
  Still curious, what had happened to HN on Feb 13th, 2008? I just scrolled to its frontpage[0] and the top story was “Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry”[1]. Any other explanations why `https://news.ycombinator.com/classic https://news.ycombinator.com/classic` turned back to this date? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2008-02-13 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2008-02-13 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115094
  - derivagral 6y ago
    On google and wikipedia, HN's launch date is listed as "February 19, 2007". I presume this is to screen for that first ~year of accounts. Funny, since I remember lurking for years before making mine!