The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)

Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by mch82 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:10AM (#21621244)

Fun fact... This is how search engines started. One of the first steps in early SEO was to get your site listed on a manually curated web directory. VLIB, the first web directory, still operates at http://vlib.org/.

List of Web Directories, Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories

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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by ci5er on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:38AM (#21621473)

Uh, yeah. Jerry Yang when he was a VLSI student at Stanford, and I was a lowly semiconductor designer at Motorola Japan used to talk about these things, so ... yeah: I was being sardonic.

EDIT: He used to say to me: "[WhateverMyNameIs]! Nobody is going to pay a penny per newspaper article or a nickel for a song!". And I'd say: "Jerry! Nobody is going to pay to advertise on your personal curated bookmark list!". Turns out that one of us was right. And it wasn't me.

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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by fwip on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:52PM (#21622854)

Looks like VLIB is rotting though - the first link I clicked (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) seems to belong to a domain squatter now.

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