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Comment by Brajeshwar | Hacker News Reader

Feb 19, 2007 was indeed the day Hacker News came to be - https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19

It was running in stealth from https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 thru https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-22, with a few gaps. Then https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-12-14 with one story: "Productivity Surges During Reddit Downtime" (not much has changed, as PhilipRoman said...)

And then https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19, as you say, which was the public launch. Let me dig up the link...here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

And then https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html 6 months later.

I posted links to Startup News pages the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237746.

We should make the top left say "Startup News" for /front?day=2007-08-13 and earlier!

Haha, the core of this website really hasn't changed, has it?

> Why Startups Don't Condense in Europe

> DabbleDB -- web-based DBMS coded in Smalltalk

dead comment: > Fedora is far better than ubuntu

Dissing Ubuntu in 2007 is a bit prescient: it was one of the best distros around, and Fedora (Core) a buggy mess.

Wow, gave a strange feeling to see DabbleDB mentioned. I had launched a product in the same category. It didn't get traction, and I lost interest in it for some time, but I kept it running and it's still available and has just been rewritten in F#. My problem now is the same as nearly 20 years ago, find its niche. I'm thinking of making a Ask HN about that.

I counted 14 out of 30 links on the front page back then still work and appear to refer to the same article / something relevant to the original submission.

Link rot is always disappointing, but I actually expected it to be far worse for links from 17 years ago.

And here's the archive[0] of the top post[1] from the following day[2], "Why we made this site"

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070222125635/http://ycombinato...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-20

Where there any success stories that came out of Stanford start up school? Or was the success Stanford monetizing the process?

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