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Comment by simonh | Hacker News Reader

> The web is not dying, the web is already dead!

Says he on a web site.

And the fact this remains a Web site is truly remarkable. The reason it is popular with a niche group of technically minded-users is because Web sites are so hard to come by these days that you need a special place to collect them.

> Web sites are so hard to come by these days that you need a special place to collect them.

When the web was nascent sites like Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo!, and others created indexes you could browse by category, right?

Yes. The front page of the internet used to consist of websites. Now you need to go to a special niche place to find the websites.

> The front page of the internet

There was never “the” frontpage.

For a very brief period, the netscape whats new page(s) did function in this way, but that didn't last very long.

> Web sites are so hard to come by these days

and yet day after day, HN is flooded with links to ... wait for it ... web sites (more specifically, content on web sites thought to be potentially interesting to the HN crowdf).

what are you talking about?

That search engine results suck and it is increasingly hard to find those websites, thus HN serves as an old-school website index. I think that was his point, and I don't disagree with it.

Yes, but I'm the only active user on this website. The rest of you are AI-generated content.

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