See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined
View page source.<p><pre><code>  <script>
  $(function () {
  	var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/");
  	var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/";
  	$("#誤").hide();
  	$("form").submit(function () {
  		火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { 
  			var 人 = 結果.val();
  			if (人 && 人.created) {
  				var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3);
  				var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,"");
  				var ꜛ = "https://web.archive.org/web/".concat(YYYYMMDDhhmmss, "/", ໆ);
  				$('body').fadeOut();
  				location = ꜛ;
  			} else {
  				$("#誤").show();
  			}
  		});
  		return false;
  	});
  });

  /* ASCII art omitted to save space */
  </script>

</code></pre>
Wow, non-latin characters for variable names.<p>And if you'd like to learn some Chinese, here is the definition of all Chinese characters appeared above.<p><pre><code>    火 = fire
    誤 = error / mistake
    時 = time
    結果 = result (a term / expression with figurative meaning)
    果 = fruit
    人 = human / person
</code></pre>
---<p>My pick: 'HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today'.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404972" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404972</a>