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Back in those days I literally maintained a bookmarks folder with every web page of any value, anywhere, on the Internet. That quickly stopped. Bookmarks were
by fit2rule 8y ago
Back in those days I literally maintained a bookmarks folder with every web page of any value, anywhere, on the Internet.
That quickly stopped. Bookmarks were functional for about a year, and then quickly became useless. The new hot was the search engine that'd just do the work of finding new sites to read for you.
- Fnoord 8y agoNavigation-wise?
- fit2rule 8y agoNot sure what you mean by navigation? Since it was possible I've pretty much just used "print to PDF" to save web pages I like, which means I can use tools such as 'ls' and 'grep' to find stuff I only remember by a few key words, and I have an easy to maintain filesystem with tons of stuff that is easily and readily available, offline, which is great .. plus instead of having to deal with a proprietary format for saving URL's, its just PDF's. And boy is it fun to mine data out of my collection of everything interesting I've ever read online since .. I guess .. 1997 ..
- Fnoord 8y agoUtilising the browser to navigate through the web compared to its ancestors. My first browser was Netscape Navigator 3. I remember how little RAM I had, couldn't keep many windows open (tabs did not exist yet) assuming Windows 9x didn't crash. Some webpages were annoying with blink, horrible colour combinations, many (bloated) pictures, or they had MIDI, GIFs, etc. What I'm wondering about is was all that harder to browse then say Gopher or Usenet? Why is it a website like HN with so little fluff is a breeze to use while Aliexpress or Google News sucks?
- fit2rule 8y agoThe web has a serious case of bloat disease. Sure, back then, site were smaller - we didn't have all the bandwidth we have today. But as bandwidth grew, so did the bloat.