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bensw.com
Personal blog · bensw.com/blogcareerculture
bensw.com is a personal blog at bensw.com about career and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Aaron, 5 years later”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post about why so little of the early internet survives. The one comment speculates on the reasons, such as low commercial value of old Usenet content, and does not judge the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Aaron, 5 years later2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-13
What Hacker News says?
My best guess is the company just doesn't see much value in doing the work. It's a niche community and by definition 20+ year old information. It's important historically maybe but not to Google's business. No one's going to buy or see ads on 1990s rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 content. archive.org has several significant Usenet collections. Henry Spencer's UTZOO collection, stuff from Giganews, and some sort of dump for…
Comment linking /blog/Aaron-5-Years-Later/
on “Why there’s so little left of the early internet”Submitted Aaron, 5 years later as a story · 1009 points
HN discussionSubmitted I quit as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Foo Camp as a story · 2 points
HN discussion