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Justin Hall
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Justin Hall writes justin's links, a personal blog at links.net about culture and history. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Fuck.com (1997)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Justin Hall's links.net for early web history: his 1994 attempt to register fuck.com, his bud.com domain story, and his 'HTML is easy as hell' call to arms about web publishing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fuck.com (1997)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-06
- Fuck.com (1997)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-31
- A Story of GameLayers, Inc.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-04
What Hacker News says?
It would be often addressed to the head of an organisation even if they never saw it. These days it would be proper to address it Dear Sir/Madam IF you did not know the gender of the person. Besides that, in this case it really was pretty much all Jon Postel making the decisions. Good story - the time that Justin Hall tried to register fuck.com in 1994. http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html
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on “How SSH got port number 22”Submitted Fuck.com (1997) as a story · 196 points
HN discussion> The web was great back when it was mostly read-only. ??? Justin Hall's call to arms "HTML is easy as hell"[0] was written nearly 30 years ago. The cycle Hall promoted is non-centralized, noncommercial and read-write. 0. http://www.links.net/webpub/
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on “An account was suspended”Submitted Fuck.com as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttp://www.links.net/webpub/domains.html says: > It used to be free, now you have to pay $50 a year for the priviledge ofyour own address. Some people aren't standing for it, Refuse to Pay!. The "Refuse to Pay!" link 404s, but is present in the Wayback Machine, and is an amusing read: https://web.archive.org/web/19970606222403/www.alaska.net/~n...
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on “Fuck.com (1997)”Submitted A Story of GameLayers, Inc. as a story · 10 points
HN discussionJustin Hall registered bud.com in 1994 when he was a 19-year-old intern working at Wired Magazine. He also published "Justin's Links from the Underground" at links.net, becoming one of the internet's earliest bloggers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Hall http://www.links.net/ Instead of selling out to Budweiser for peanuts, he stashed it away safely in a cool dry place for later. Now he runs Bud.com as a Calif…
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on “Amazon backs marijuana legalization, drops weed testing for some jobs”Submitted And the rest is history: 1993 NYT article on NCSA Mosaic web browser's popularity as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWas that friend Justin Hall of Wired? There was a story about Jon Postel (pre-ICANN) and fuck.com, this might be it: https://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html
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on “Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)”Submitted Hacking H T M L as a story · 4 points
HN discussionroblox.com seems popular with children: "Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system . . . that allows users to program games and play games created by other users." In some ways it is surprising and disappointing that HTML and CSS would be still significant to "web development" in that Justin Hall's call to arms "HTML is easy as hell"[0] was written nearly 30 years ago. The cycle promoted there is no…
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on “Ask HN: Is there a site popular with Gen Z where users can write HTML and CSS?”Submitted Fuck.com (1997) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34281453 DonHopkins on Jan 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies It reminds me of Justin Hall's story about holding out and refusing to sell "bud.com" to Budweiser. Instead he just hung onto it, and eventually used it for his own bud delivery company, once recreational cannabis was finally legalized. He was much happier that gre…
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on “The million-dollar mystery of milk.com”Submitted Justin's Links as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt reminds me of Justin Hall's story about holding out and refusing to sell "bud.com" to Budweiser. Instead he just hung onto it, and eventually used it for his own bud delivery company, once recreational cannabis was finally legalized. He was much happier that great three-letter domain name be used for something he loves, strong kind bud, instead of something he hates, weak piss beer. https://bud.com https://bud.co…
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on “Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies”Submitted Justin's Links from the Underground as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Story of GameLayers, Inc as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online social games company post-mortem as a story · 1 points
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