[anon3_]

- Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

- Old Slashdot

- Old style Thinkpads

- 4chan before it had captcha

- Kazaa (do these networks still work?)

- Suprnova (warez has gone downhill, since we now have open source alternatives)

- Turntable.fm

- Runescape Classic

- Old Firefox (when it was light, phoenix 0.1

- Utorrent (before they wrecked it with adware)

- Windows 2000 classic interface, XP

- Nokia N900 (debian phone, nokia abandoned linux and maemo for microsoft.)

- Razr 3 / Old nokia "Dumbphones" - built like tanks. Solid. Reliable.

- I miss the old innocence of PHP Vbulletin, early CMS systems like PHP-Nuke - which at the time were cool.

- Photoshop 6 (before they put CRM callhomes everywhere)

- BZFlag - no one cares about this anymore :(

- MySpace - I liked how you could customize it. It was more individualistic

- AOL / MSN / Yahoo Chat. People were more open to making friendships online.

[mindcrime]

> Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

Good one. The good news is, some alternate versions of some of those are still available and maintained. And, at least since they're OSS, worst case, you could fork it yourself. :-)

> BZFlag - no one cares about this anymore :(

I hear ya. I've been thinking about setting up a BZFlag instance on a Fogbeam server, alongside some other "classic" technologies and just put it out there for people to play around with.

> - AOL / MSN / Yahoo Chat. People were more open to making friendships online.

Don't forget ICQ. That said, I don't so much miss those, as just wishing people would use Jabber instead of Facebook Messenger or this other proprietary crap.

[LarryMade2]

> - Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

and associated programs deprecated along with them -> Gnome Blackjack, Kooka OCR and Quanta Plus IDE. Also the quick desktop responsiveness.

> - BZFlag - no one cares about this anymore :(

Been there a few times in the last couple weeks, yeah kinda quiet.

> - MySpace - I liked how you could customize it. It was more individualistic

I think if someone refactored it they might get converts from Facebook.

My Additions:

- FoxBase +/Mac (very underrated tool, you could do a lot more than you realize with it) - Claris Works/AppleWorks (the database on it was quite simple, creative and usable.) - AI/EPS exporters for PrintShop Deluxe graphics - Software that had MORE features when new versions come out.

[pvdebbe]

> Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

I remember the tetris clone KSirtet from KDE 3.x projects very fondly. It was quick, responsive, aesthetically pleasing in its minimality and fun to play. KDE 4 introduced this new iteration called KBlocks that was simply a travesty in terms of usability. Very slow controls, odd delays in a dead-simple game, useless graphics.

[Spoom]

MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 that I've been using for a year or so. It works pretty well.