alt Hacker NewsOh man. I’ve been hoping someone would build this. “The internet we lost” was formative for a whole generation for better or worse.
One thing I’d wish for would be for it to use an LLM other than grok though.
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Maybe you just really need unhinged mode for verisimilitude
AOL is not the internet we lost. It's literally what bigtech is trying to turn the rest of the internet into. Online service as centralized marketing platform for bigcos. Remember "Visit us at www.blah.com or use AOL keyword 'Blah'"? The real internet was much more amorphous and chaotic.
Pretending that AOL represents the pre-enshittified internet is like pretending that Clippy represents the idealized past of desktop computing when he was a prototype of what Microsoft is building now.
Given their seeming affinity towards signing in with "X" I doubt you'll have the option.