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    4 hours ago

    I don’t know about number one, but a few that I miss.

    • freshmeat.net. Announcements of open source software releases and updates.

    • newegg.com — computer components retailer — is still around, but it doesn’t hold the spot it once did.

    • bash.org. Searchable list of funny, ranked quotes from IRC and similar. There are some archives, like this one.

    • A few “hosting” sites that went down with a lot of user-created content. No one thing was amazing, maybe, but it produced a lot of dangling links. Geocities: “At least 38 million pages, most written by users, were displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated.[7] The GeoCities Japan version of the service lasted until March 31, 2019.[8]”. AngelFire. Tripod. Apparently the latter two are still around in some limited form.

    • Kaleidoscope.net, a site featuring themes for the eponymous classic MacOS themeing software package. They did a good job of generating theme previews. Fun to browse through.