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> 17 years this month in fact! https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.yc
by wtallis 3y ago
> 17 years this month in fact! https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...)
That prompted me to check other dates in the archive: apparently the "Startup News" title lasted for around six months before changing to "Hacker News". I was pretty sure the change was before I made my account, but I didn't realize the "Startup News" period had been so short.
- dang 3y agopg got bored of startup news and switched it in August of that year: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html Edit: here's the last copy of Startup News that archive.org has—from 2007-07-13: https://web.archive.org/web/20070713212949/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070713212949/http://news.ycomb... and here's the first copy of Hacker News they have, from 2007-08-30: https://web.archive.org/web/20070830111558/http://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070830111558/http://news.ycomb... I guess they missed 6 weeks there, but bless them for having anything at all—who among us preserves our own history?