[emllnd]

Wow, cant remember when I started coming back to HN regularly but it’s cool to know its been around for so long.

It’s awesome seeing the posts from back then, stuff like ”PhotoShow: Broadcast Photos to Cable TV” give some good perspective on how the world has changed very quick.

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”No need to get your grandmother online. Just point her to channel 917 and she can see your most recent vacation pictures right there on her television.”

”If Photoshow is successful in closing deals with local cable channels, this differentiating factor with competitors could make it a winner.

The company has raised $6.3 million from Venrock in August 2005.”

[armchairhacker]

Then there are posts like https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des... which are still informative today.

[chrisbuc]

It was actually as throwaway comment [1] that Joel made in a talk I went to back in 2011 that brought me to hacker news.

It was something like "when a link starts getting multiple posts on hacker news that's when we know we've hit on something..."

I'd not heard about hacker news until that point. I was probably hanging around codeproject.com. Since then I lurk almost daily, and am always amazed by the breadth and depth of articles and commments, both tech and non tech.