Oh you sweet summer child, who never got to experience Suck.com or Plastic in their (respective) heydays. Your world is objectively poorer as a result, but least the Brunching Shuttlecocks is still online!
Look how special, important, and better you are as a result of being 10 years older than a random stranger :)
I would argue that experiencing suck.com, in it's time and element, was a very unique and valuable experience.
Older, yes, but sadly, the wisdom I expected to attend age has not yet appeared. :)
Aw, you people downvoted this? It was the perfect take-down to my damn-kids-get-off-my-lawn comment. Sorry, @josephmx. :(
I'm sure I'll live, thanks though :)
I was on Slashdot for a while, but I assume those were few years older. I also missed out on newsgroups and BBSes, poor me :)
Is it more of a reddit than HN of the time?
I'd say that Plastic's closest living relative is probably MetaFilter. Reddit feels closer to Usenet because of the multiple subreddits and, frankly, because of all the trolling and shitposting that goes on. Actually, let me clarify that: The content/discussions found in most subreddits would fit comfortably into the alt.* newsgroup hierarchy. The methods by which we discuss things on the Internet have changed, but the kinds of things we talk about haven't, really.