Way to make us feel old :) Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself

Way to make us feel old :) Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old: https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ And here's the HN discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 (including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting) And the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode None of these really convey the cultural importance of Freshmeat to the opensource community at the time, though. For a while, Slashdot + Freshmeat were among the two first sites almost everyone I knew and worked with would open in the morning.