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Ever bookmark a page that you found totally killer and a great resource, only to come back days, weeks or months later and found that it has been taken down, changed, or otherwise rendered unusable?
I had a great site which listed a bunch of free ebooks that had everything from mastering programming languages to algorithm analysis to self help manuals on a dozen non computing topics. It was recently changed this month to a lame blog that includes nothing but advertisements and a little nonsense text talking about non computer related stuff.
Tell us about the site and what it use to be and what it is now.
What happened to that great site?Tell us about the one that got away
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Re: What happened to that great site?
Posted 31 January 2008 - 04:26 AM
bestbuysux.org & liksang.com
One was a hate site for ... well that's obvious & the other was a site for Asian video game equipment, controllers, systems...
One was a hate site for ... well that's obvious & the other was a site for Asian video game equipment, controllers, systems...
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 05:20 AM
Yahoo auctions. I used to make cash by exploiting the differences between the average prices on Yahoo and eBay...then yahoo auctions shut down and that was that.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 05:51 AM
fooboo, on 31 Jan, 2008 - 05:20 AM, said:
Yahoo auctions. I used to make cash by exploiting the differences between the average prices on Yahoo and eBay...then yahoo auctions shut down and that was that.
Wow... I didn't know that Yahoo auctions closed. I signed up for an account but they shutdown just about every auction that I put up, so I quit trying after a while.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 07:00 AM
lithuaniandonkeylove.com - it used to be chock full of tips and tricks for mating and caring for Lithuanian donkeys, especially helpful in my previous career of running a Lithuanian donkey stable.
I don't even want to tell you what it is now,
I don't even want to tell you what it is now,
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 07:18 AM
I was also going to say liksang.com (screw you, Sony)
Home-run message boards for Gameboy Advance some friends and I started: gbamerican.com
Random pre-2000 freebie sites that sent amazing freebies. I got a ton of amazon gift certificates for nothing but a few clicks and etc. (this was pre-enron internetz when everyone thought it'd be a good idea to give everything away free...)
ALSO! mp3.com back in the day. I know they are still around, but they suck...
Home-run message boards for Gameboy Advance some friends and I started: gbamerican.com
Random pre-2000 freebie sites that sent amazing freebies. I got a ton of amazon gift certificates for nothing but a few clicks and etc. (this was pre-enron internetz when everyone thought it'd be a good idea to give everything away free...)
ALSO! mp3.com back in the day. I know they are still around, but they suck...
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Re: What happened to that great site?
Posted 31 January 2008 - 11:24 AM
i used to go ign.com all the time, back from when it was n64.com and all that, it got bigger and bigger, more bloated and bloated, and then insider came along and i was outties.
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Re: What happened to that great site?
Posted 31 January 2008 - 12:02 PM
supersloth, on 31 Jan, 2008 - 10:24 AM, said:
i used to go ign.com all the time, back from when it was n64.com and all that, it got bigger and bigger, more bloated and bloated, and then insider came along and i was outties.
That seems to happen a lot these days. Everyone thinks that by throwing more onto the site will make it that much better! Sometimes less is more. Don't bloat your sites or your software. That is a standard rule.
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Posted 31 January 2008 - 12:36 PM
no2pencil, on 31 Jan, 2008 - 05:51 AM, said:
Wow... I didn't know that Yahoo auctions closed. I signed up for an account but they shutdown just about every auction that I put up, so I quit trying after a while.
I'm talking about the U.K. branch that shut a few years back. I don't know if it carried on elsewhere in the world.
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Re: What happened to that great site?
Posted 01 February 2008 - 10:11 AM
yaaaahoooooooooooo-ooo-oo
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