What now-familiar domain names looked like before they were bought by big-time companies, e.g. openai.com was “the personal homepage of a guy named glenn”, doordash.com was a porn site, threads.com sold spools of thread.
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Tinder used to be an Instapaper/Pocket sort of site. (via @krystynheide)
Those screenshots make me nostalgic for the old internet. Before everyone stopped making their own stuff and instead started posting on the same 3 places.
What a glorious mess of notepad html and random weirdness. I miss it.
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