The eldest among us remember the First Web, before search engines were Good Actually. They used secret magics to make sense of the chaos that was the First Web.
Site directories.
Web rings.
Home pages linking to trusted sites.
Homework and jello shooter recipes study notes.
Now that the Search Engines have fallen it is time to bring those ancient tools back, for ourselves and the youngest among us who never knew the First Web.
Back in the day.... A long time ago...
There were no search engines. There was the net. And there was the web. But you had to know about something in order to get there.
Someone introduced a suite of programs called the ferrets. There was Mail ferret And, I think address ferret.
I was pretty blown away. They took a long time to run, but it was neat and it opened up things that I hadn't thought were possible.
Does anyone else remember the ferrets?
I think that they may have preceeded Gopher. But then we're talking about my memory, so who knows. 😀
Gopher was certainly a neat addition to our net.
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