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| + |
| OK |
|1995-|
| ....|
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Craigslist 📖 still kicking since 1995 thriving the bare HTML classifieds site that has not changed since 1998. craig newmark made it profitable by charging only for job postings and paid sections in expensive cities, and giving everything else away. it killed the classifieds section of |
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| + |
| OK |
|2001-|
| ....|
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Wikipedia 📖 still kicking since 2001 thriving the most successful collaborative project on the internet, full stop. it should not work. anyone can edit, the editors are anonymous, the business model adds up to "ask for donations once a year." and yet it has more accurate information th |
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| + |
| OK |
|2001-|
| ....|
|_____|
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VLC media player 📖 still kicking since 2001 thriving the orange traffic cone. it plays every video format you throw at it. it has not changed much since 2003 because it does not need to. videolan ships at glacial pace, the icon is the same, and it just keeps working while every commercial com |
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| + |
| OK |
|2007-|
| ....|
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Hacker News 📖 still kicking since 2007 thriving paul graham's startup news site. plain html. arc-language backend that almost nobody else uses. it has barely changed since 2007 and somehow still has all the news that matters in tech, plus more. nothing replaced it. this site (rip.so) wen |
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| + |
| OK |
|1988-|
| ....|
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IRC 📖 still kicking since 1988 hanging-on the chat protocol from 1988 that did not die. discord did not kill it. slack did not kill it. it just kept going, smaller every year, on a slowly shrinking set of networks, run by volunteers who care about decentralized communication. freen |
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| + |
| OK |
|1995-|
| ....|
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Newgrounds 📖 still kicking since 1995 hanging-on the flash games and animation site i grew up with. tom fulp founded it in 1995. it should have died with flash in 2020. instead, the team integrated ruffle (the flash emulator) and most of the games still play. that is real preservation wor |
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| + |
| OK |
|1997-|
| ....|
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Slashdot 📖 still kicking since 1997 hanging-on the original news for nerds site. it had its peak from 1999 to 2005, lost most of its audience to digg and then reddit and then hacker news, and yet you can go to slashdot.org right now and there are stories from this morning. small communi |
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| + |
| OK |
|2004-|
| ....|
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YTMND 📖 still kicking since 2004 hanging-on youre-the-man-now-dog. the entire site format was one image plus one looping audio plus scrolling text on top. there are thousands of these pages. peak was 2004 to 2008. the site has not had real new submissions in years but the existing pa |