This is a great point that it's more of a era or genera than a designator to be applied as the work ages. You have Rockabilly, Classic Rock, Grunge Rock, etc.

One of the things that makes music slightly different than durable goods, although I would have a hard time calling anything from the 90's "vintage," but it's getting close to that age.

I used to do this with Gentoo, and it was always a blast! Glad that you’re having fun “rolling your own!”

That looks fantastic!

Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it!

Thanks for your ideas! I appreciate it!

I kind of feel like a weirdo for not chatting a lot, I guess?

I don't know. Windows 7 was widely considered to be the nadir.

Gosh! This takes me back! What a great game!

I bought the various flavors of Gameboy just to play the slew of those games.

I tend to play a lot of the old text-tile games that I cut my teeth on back starting with Angband. Any of those variants are enjoyable, but I pretty much stick to Zangband (Angband adding in the work of Zelazny) and frogcomposband (It's a mouthfull, but FUN).

I think you hit on one of the key points. Every other time this same pattern has played out, each of those sites becomes a shadow of what they once were, but the continue because (to be blunt) running Internet sites is CHEAP.

Really, it's totally in the category "when you're getting something for free, you're not the audience, but rather the product."

When people failed to buy in very deeply to the tchotchkes to "pay" for Reddit, it was the last gasp of any effort other than wholesaling the dataset to advertisers and anyone willing to pay for the content.

My break from Reddit wasn't driven by any one single act, but rather the continued (and organized) sanitization of the Internet to appease conservative, Christian investors who make demands on the morality of the content of a site.