Comment by markus_zhang

I miss that too. I was in China before 2005 and the Internet was pretty much free. I used to speak to the quake editing group on IRC about mapping until deep into the night.

I think it's going to get more segmented. And not only that, the hardware, the OS, everything.

That said, I believe HN is a good platform. I don't think it's banned in China and people here can keep politics out of technical discussions, at least for now.