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Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸŒΉπŸš΄β€β™‚οΈπŸ“· πŸ—ΊοΈ

@bhawthorne
Remember the original Yahoo. It was actually an index not just a keyword search. And remember when there were print yellow pages directories of every website on the Internet. Keep your own index/bookmarks of trusted sources.

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Brian Hawthorne

@the5thColumnist I remember Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle, yes. And I remember when we all had our own home pages that were essentially short bios with a list of links to resources we had found and used frequently.

I think it is time for me to go back to a hand-edited HTML 1.1 static home page with few or no graphics, and start saving links to interesting other home pages. I might actually get around to verifying it in my profile here if I did that.

Now, can I find a backup of my old home page somewhere? (It was before archive.org, so the oldest snapshot there is only from 1999.

@the5thColumnist I remember Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle, yes. And I remember when we all had our own home pages that were essentially short bios with a list of links to resources we had found and used frequently.

I think it is time for me to go back to a hand-edited HTML 1.1 static home page with few or no graphics, and start saving links to interesting other home pages. I might actually get around to verifying it in my profile here if I did that.

Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸŒΉπŸš΄β€β™‚οΈπŸ“· πŸ—ΊοΈ

@bhawthorne
I still have my own "home pages that were essentially a list of links to resources we had found and used frequently" but it is only stored locally. It would be interesting but time consuming (although there is probably an "app for that" ) to see what percentage still work. Guessing about 10-20%

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