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Kuro5hin is Dead

posted by takyon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:00AM   
from the 死ぬ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:

The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.

I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?

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• Did you ever go back to high school Did you ever go back to high school (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @12:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @12:36PM (#340799)

  Walk the halls, and notice how small everything seemed to be?

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• Re:Did you ever go back to high school (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @12:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @12:47PM (#340806)

  Oh c'mon, we thought those lockers were too damn small even back then.

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• Re:Did you ever go back to high school (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:35PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:35PM (#340918)

  No, I was distracted by the fact that I kept getting older while the high school girls stayed the same age!

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