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 orderThat was a fun trip down memory lane. I dug up my old personal website, as well as ones developed for friends, family, and professors. It's funny how I was longing for the good old days of the Internet in the early 2000's, at least for the simplicity of design (albeit, not the garishness). Everything was centered upon some form of content: a cookbook, poetry, scientific research. Most of the sites were developed using an HTML pre-processor or on an…
If you want to get off at every stop on the nostalgia train, Slashdot keeps a story archive going back to 1998: https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keyword=&year=1998 Stand-out titles include: "Nintendo-64 or PlayStation? Which to buy for XMas?" "NGLayout now called Gecko to be released this week" "Microsoft blows it again with Windows 2000 name" "George Lucas Talks about new Star Wars movie" "Debian 2.0 Beta IRC Party Tonight" "PDA Overview: Pilot Still King"
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
- 2
- Total points
- 789
- Total comments
- 352
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-09 | Welcome to the Old Internet Again | classichasclass | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-06-27 | Welcome to the Old Internet AgainFirst breakout | myth_drannon | 361 | 160 |
| 2020-10-17 | Welcome to the Old Internet AgainBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | doener | 424 | 192 |
| 2022-05-09 | Welcome to the Old Internet Again | doener | 2 | 0 |