Total Brainfreeze on an Old Website

[apostle83]

I'm trying to find a website I used to visit as a teenager, beginning back in the late 90's

Here is a description:

1. Green on white design
2. News aggregator
3. Focused on technology, both hardware, software, and general science
4. The domain was super simple. I'm going mad not remembering it.

That's it. It was one of the biggies at one point. Thanks for any help!

 

[publiusr]

Try to get in touch with Henry Spencer from the Usenet days. He might know.

 

[Finn]

Netscape?

 

[Owain Taggart]

You're not thinking of the precursor to Reddit, which was called Digg, are you? That was from 2004 though. Closest thing I could think of according to your description.

 

[galleywest]

All i could think of was Fark, but i don't think that was green on white.

 

[think]

The aol era. Maybe.. Archive.org 's wayback machine might be a resource??? Maybe??

 

[BK613]

I'm trying to find a website I used to visit as a teenager, beginning back in the late 90's

Here is a description:

1. Green on white design
2. News aggregator
3. Focused on technology, both hardware, software, and general science
4. The domain was super simple. I'm going mad not remembering it.

That's it. It was one of the biggies at one point. Thanks for any help!

Maybe Slashdot?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Slashdot was what I was thinking when I read the OP's description as well.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I had forgotten about Slashdot for some reason.

 

[BK613]

Slashdot was what I was thinking when I read the OP's description as well.

I wonder if we will ever know that was the one?

I had forgotten about Slashdot for some reason.

Web 1.0 LOL. The era of dial-up, FPSs at LANparties and TechTV.
I think Slashdot was one of my first forays into web-based forums as I transitioned away from the newsgroups.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I loved TechTV. True story. Around 2004 or so, when they'd merged with G4, Leo Laporte had started a new version of Call for Help, but they'd had to film it in Canada, along with a new cast and crew. I forget when exactly, but a website I designed for my sister ended up being featured on the show. There was a segment where the web expert Amber would feature a website and offer pointers. I ended up getting signed picture of Leo Laporte & Crew, currently framed and on my bedroom wall.

 

[BK613]

Looking back, it is surprising the number of gray-hat and black-hat topics that TechTV actually covered, like hacking and wardriving. Even to the point of encouraging those activities.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I don't know if I'd say they were encouraging that stuff. It's better to be informed about it and it's good that they talked about it and exposed it for what it is. They were good about talking about topics that were not quite trending yet and making people more aware of them.

 

[BK613]

Perhaps 'encouraging' was too strong a word but they weren't exactly coy about the details on how to do the things they were demonstrating. And, IIRC, they were pro file-sharing, if you know what I mean; I learned about a number of those apps that existed back then from them.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I wonder if we will ever know that was the one?

Probably not. In my experience the OP of these kinds of "Remember something for me" threads rarely does the courtesy of returning and filling people in on whether they've guessed correctly and jogged their memory.

Maybe now that I've said something about it they'll show, though...

 

[Owain Taggart]

they were pro file-sharing, if you know what I mean; I learned about a number of those apps that existed back then from them.

But then, who wasn't back then? Napster was almost magical back then before it got shutdown via lawyers. But different time and era for sure.

But yeah, they definitely were raw in what they talked about. There's a lot of what they talked about that simply wouldn't on TV these days.

 

[Kor]

So in case this helps, here is what Slashdot looked like in 1999, courtesy of the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125092017/http://slashdot.org/

Kor

 

[BK613]

So in case this helps, here is what Slashdot looked like in 1999, courtesy of the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125092017/http://slashdot.org/

Not that much different visually than from its current iteration.

Probably not. In my experience the OP of these kinds of "Remember something for me" threads rarely does the courtesy of returning and filling people in on whether they've guessed correctly and jogged their memory.

Well, it was a nice jog down memory lane anyway. Here's another tidbit from that era

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[Owain Taggart]

Speaking of Call for Help, I just love this. It must have been devastating, but the look on the guy's face is priceless. I could only ever take Chris Pirillo in small doses though.

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[apostle83]

Sorry to keep y'all in suspense! I returned the evening of my OP and just thought this thread had died without any responses. I returned today for the first time in a while (two small children, caring for a pregnant wife, and keeping work and side business going have kept me maxed out) and was pleased to see all the replies.

Yes - I think slashdot.org was the site. Thank you!