Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderOk, this is a long shot, but if any forum is likely to know, it's HN. I first got my start in web development when I was around 8 (early 2000s) thanks to a very large (or at least it was to an 8 year old) purple book on HTML. There was one passing mention of how animated GIFs might be added to websites with an IMG tag. The example of the animated GIF they showed (they exploded the frames)…
I do miss the early days of the web. I remember transitioning from BBS'. It truly was the "Wild West" era of the Internet. Ahh, the nostalgia.
This makes me oddly nostalgic for the days of painstakingly creating animated GIFs frame-by-frame. My animated GIF magnum opus, ca. 1996: https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/globe_spin3.gif
This is an incredible homage. Never thought I'd long for those times.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 751
- Total comments
- 232
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-19 | Cameron's WorldFirst breakout | zeitg3ist | 249 | 63 |
| 2017-07-07 | Cameron's World: A love letter to the Internet of old | Grognak | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-12-23 | Cameron's World | soheil | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-03-28 | Cameron's World – A love letter to the Internet of old | Jaruzel | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-08-02 | Cameron's World: A collage of text and images from GeoCities | Nition | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-08-05 | Cameron's World (2015) | Red_Tarsius | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-10-30 | A Love Letter to the Internet of Old | elliekelly | 211 | 56 |
| 2022-07-15 | Camerons World, a Geocities web-collage (warning:sound) | mouzogu | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-08-01 | A Love Letter to Geocities SitesHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | martialg | 269 | 111 |
| 2024-08-17 | A love letter to the Internet of old | OuterVale | 9 | 1 |
| 2024-09-23 | Cameron's World | takoid | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-05-12 | Camerons World | weavie | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-04-07 | Cameron's World | thunderbong | 1 | 0 |