The History of the Web

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How Yahoo Blew It

Written by Jay on March 10, 2018.

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I took the best posts from The History of the Web, over sixty of them, and compiled them into a single volume. So now you can read about the web's history wherever you go.

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Can Directories Rise Again?

With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory.

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