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Re:Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond by SamuelAdams on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:25AM (#22053916)
Yes, this existed and was popular for some time in the early 2000's. Stumble Upon was a tool you could use to explore random websites. Some were related by topic. It was easy to spend several hours exploring new or hardly viewed websites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

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Re:Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond by zozbot234 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:29AM (#22053943)
Reddit.com got started as the same kind of service, even though today it has clearly outgrown that use case altogether and become something like a new Compuserve BBS of sorts.
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