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Thing about things that happened before you is you can never be a person who experienced them.

That said, could be implemented as a rolling decade. The term is “classic”. For cars that takes 25 years. Ten for tech seems fine.




That would be accounts from 2011 and before.


Still curious, what had happened to HN on Feb 13th, 2008?

I just scrolled to its frontpage[0] and the top story was “Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry”[1].

Any other explanations why `https://news.ycombinator.com/classic` turned back to this date?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2008-02-13

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115094


On google and wikipedia, HN's launch date is listed as "February 19, 2007". I presume this is to screen for that first ~year of accounts.

Funny, since I remember lurking for years before making mine!




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