Y Combinator's First Web Site

http://web.archive.org/web/20050324062234/http:/ycombinator.com/

by johns • 14 years ago

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andygcook• 14 years ago

Looks almost identical to the website they have today.

adulau• 14 years ago

A good news. This showed their consistency over time.

zbruhnke• 14 years ago

"The Fourth Man wants to remain anonymous for now" lol makes you wonder how long that lasted :P

pg• 14 years ago

There was some speculation at the time about who it might be, but the explanation was simply that Jessica hadn't quit her job yet.

Incidentally, "The Fourth Man" was not an attempt to conceal her gender; it was a reference to the Guy Burgess spy ring.

benatkin• 14 years ago

Here's the HTML without the Wayback Machine addition in case anyone's interested:

https://gist.github.com/2053395

forwardslash• 14 years ago

Thanks! I would've missed the little easter egg in there if not for you:

tbsdy• 14 years ago

Not much different to today. I guess you can't improve on perfect!

laconian• 14 years ago

Yes, perfection is a 50% chance of "unknown or expired link."

nitrogen• 14 years ago

That just means you're browsing too slowly ;)

AIUI and as you've probably figured out when you Googled for the error message, Hacker News stores state in closures, and there's a finite amount of space for closures. So if you wait for a long time, then click e.g. "Next Page", the HN software has already garbage collected the closure storing the information necessary to generate your specific next page.

majani• 14 years ago

Yes, that's one of HN's biggest annoyances. When you consider HN's user experience (open article in new tab, read for five minutes, then return to HN tab) it's a misplaced 'feature'

gghh2• 14 years ago

Ehy, "Hacker News" was "Startup News" at the time http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi... . I didn't know, and thought that Russ Cox was joking here https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/h95SSbSJ...

rokhayakebe• 14 years ago

I remember there was a debate when the name changed.

homosaur• 14 years ago

That text is not small enough for my taste.

thekevan• 14 years ago

I barely see the difference. (And I like it.)

Y Combinator's First Web Site

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