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Re:The old internet died and we watched and did nothing by zozbot234 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:17AM (#21922071)
Bring back webrings, "favorite links" pages and the ODP/DMOZ. Good niche forums (both on Usenet and elsewhere) tended to gather FAQs and information pages that would ultimately aid discovery. That whole dynamic is quite dead these days.
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Re:The old internet died and we watched and did nothing by chongli on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:28PM (#21922717)
Webrings were great but you still need search as a starting point. Now we've got all this spam out there which essentially creates fake webrings (private blog networks [1]) as a form of black hat SEO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm

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