Back then it was common for Netscape to have features that (years) later became standard HTML.

There is an 'unhook' add-on for Firefox that blocks all shorts forever. Highly recommended.

I wish there was something like this for safari on macos.

Lately the option to disable ambient lighting around video has been reseting to ON for me on every video I open.

I cant even formulate how I feel about that without breaking some rules somewhere

Using Unhook for 4 years, I save recommendation using my phone and watch it later on PC.

Back then things like postmaster@theirdomain and webmaster@theirdomain were read by actual people. Also the whois command often worked.

I work for one of the largest Swiss ISPs, and these mailboxes are still to this day read by actual people (me included), so it's sometimes worthwhile even today.

I setup a new mail server with Stalwart and have been getting automated mails to my postmaster address (security treat results mostly).

Pretty neat.

I tried to contact Hetzner and others about customers scanning my ports. Nobody cares about that. I took issue when I kept getting firewall alerts for port scans on open Plex ports.

I went down a crazy rabbit hole and found a bunch of domains that were random parts of street addresses. Obviously created automatically and they were purposely trying to make it harder to find related domains.

A responsible ___domain owner still will read them. My own postmaster is a catch-all for all my domains, such that typos in the username still get caught. Has proven to be invaluable with the family ___domain, where harried medical staff make mistakes in setting up accounts for my parents.

> As a sole maintainer of an open source project, I was enthused when Microsoft reached out to set up a meeting to talk about Spegel. The meeting went well, and I felt there was going to be a path forward ripe with cooperation and hopefully a place where I could onboard new maintainers.

I bet the Spyglass people had the same thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.

I was alive, and it did happen.

I never did it myself, but did get copies of the (British I think) broadcasts on cassette for the ZX Spectrum. iirc a program would be about five-six minutes of beeps.

> HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland.

I bet a lot of people here would say the same thing about Slashdot ten to fifteen years ago. @HN: Thanks and please don't change.

HN has outlasted Slashdot by a wide margin at this point.

IIRC, Slashdot stopped being great around the same time as the decline of the Digg era. It started to sink in quality around 2007, which gave it ten years at most of being a central part of the online tech community (1997 - 2007).

I started reading HN in 2008. It's lasted nearly twenty years as an incredible community.

Here are some graphs:

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/01/slashdot-fail.html

LOL thanks for the link!

> Seriously, Windows 2000 was one of the most stable OS back in the day, rock solid. I used 2000 server as a desktop OS, instead of 98.

Really? Oh, compared to other Windows versions...

Because it never came close to the stability of OS/400, Netware 3, AIX, Solaris or even OS/2 v2.

I will fully agree on OS/400, of the operating systems and platforms I have worked with, it is by far the most stable.

That is easier to achieve when your operating system only runs on your own proprietary hardware. (No mess of millions of drivers to write for one).

It worked well for years without any sysadmin touching it.

Well my mom was trained to be the "sys admin", which meant rotating backup tapes.

Part of my 1994's Summer job role. :)

I dunno how to compare stable to stable but I ran Win2k for so long that I got bored with it (something like 5-7 years) and never experienced a single crash. This is coming from a Linux guy btw… so I’m no Microsoft fanboy, just saying, it was as stable as any other stable OS.

Didn't mean to bash you, sorry.

I saw years of uptime on those systems whereas Win2000 iirc needed a reboot for every single update of the OS, and even for applications like IIS or Exchange.

Compared to NT4 it was probably very stable, since I remember telling most clients to just shut it down Friday evening and boot it Monday morning cause the pre-SP4 NT4 could not stay up more than three weeks.

Compare that to AS/400, where we pushed updates all over the country, without warning clients, to system running in hospitals, and there never was even the slightest problem. It sounds irresponsible to do that today, but those updates just worked, all the time and all applications continued to work.

> I saw years of uptime on those systems

This just means security updates were never installed.

(Or you claim that all those operating systems never had kernel-level security issues which seems doubtful...)

Since these systems were from the 90ies they indeed did not get security updates.

Most were only locally connected (for example OS/2 had a Token Ring in one building). The WAN connection (for AS/400) was trusted.

You are comparing supermarket apples (Windows) with localy grown plums (AS400). Even today, Windows is not able to update Office without closing it.

The Internet worked fine without ads though.

> = (2 + 0!)^2*5

How?

0! = 1 so how does 3^2*5 become 2025?

It doesn't, you need to square the whole thing.

You mean like tmux or screen? EDIT: apparently not, sorry.