Funny, we take it for granted that sites will stay up - I'm old enough to remember pre commercial web when there was a courtesy rule about overloading. Especially with universities where we'd wait until after hours to connect.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234963

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I was in Japan recently. A choice was made there as well.

The article talks about the specification and it's more... specific than that: > “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using the ao nomenclature,” Allan Richarz writes for Atlas Obscura

https://www.rd.com/article/heres-japan-blue-traffic-lights/

No, it doesn't mean you can still go out to eat and have a club membership. If you save nothing after you use up your entire paycheck going out to eat and paying for a gym membership , that means you aren't handling money well.

Sorry folks, but many of us here sound entitled. Having been poor and scrambled my way up, it was depressing reading.

Your comment really brought it home for me.

https://github.com/nekogaijin/DagYigTibetanDictionary

Financially, you can retire. one less thing to add to the destruction.

I looked around and could not find any other site that had pulled this off. I used Cybercash for the credit card piece and modified the Hazel Shopping Cart (CGI)to use FTP rather than snail mail.

People would purchase and we would send a temporary FTP link to their email. Problems arose when customers newly on the web from AOL would give us just their screen names. Same with Lotus users.

Ugh, of course we had to create tests for proper email text entry. Sounds so obvious now.

We had to be careful about advertising in newsgroups or we'd receive retaliation from the users of the then non commercial internet.

It was much easier to manipulate search engines to get to the top of the list - infoseek, ask Jeeves, etc. - infoseek was the easiest. Meta words and invisible text that copied whatever other company was currently on top onto our page. Back and forth we and our competitors went. Quicken was a big competitor at the time.

Yahoo actually had a person answering the phone whenever we called about their lists.

I nor the company did not think to patent the process.

It was a great ride.

Awkward silence ensued. ...