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I have been playing with the idea of making good old internet portal. A curated list of links to the good stuff. No FB, medium, Instagram or anything like that.
by torh 5y ago
I have been playing with the idea of making good old internet portal. A curated list of links to the good stuff. No FB, medium, Instagram or anything like that.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoSo who takes on the full-time job of curation? Could probably get donations eventually, but the portal would have to sufficiently succeed first.
- MentallyRetired 5y agoWiki? With a double approval before the edit happens?
- robjan 5y agoJust bring back DMOZ, it was by no means perfect but was a great curated directory of the old internet despite SEOs always trying to spam it. Apparently Curlie is trying this but I haven't really looked much into it: https://curlie.org/en https://curlie.org/en
- torh 5y agoYeah, that would be the hard part. But in the spirit of the old internet, make it first and then, if it becomes popular, deal with it. Just have to read up on the history of Yahoo and watch that last season of Halt & Catch Fire. ;-)
- bufordtwain 5y agoI had the same idea, I think this is the ultimate solution. Would need to be easy to add links and allow moderators to approve submitted websites and provide a good search capability. Would only include quirky websites.
- EamonnMR 5y agoWiby.me and oldinter.net are both good starting points
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoPortals are still sometimes made to make it easier to discover independent content, you aren't the only one concerned about this. However, the problem is that independent creators often stop paying for hosting or domain registration at some point, so any manually created directory eventually abounds with 404s.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoWhat about a curated directory of archive links to decrease the rate of link rot?
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoI would suspect that even fans of independent content would be turned off by browsing through a large amount of Wayback Machine links, because Archive.org insert their own markup, and often the images in posts don't get archived. People like using the Wayback Machine when they know that certain content used to exist, but not necessarily to discover new things unfamiliar to them.
- Sleepytime 5y agoIPFS mirroring would probably be ideal for simple websites like this.
- vkk8 5y agoAdditional properties it should have: * Basic HTML only, no Javascript * No user interaction (comments, etc.) * Gets updated occasionally but not all the time, perhaps a few times a year
- torh 5y agoYeah, I was thinking static html pages generated once per day or once per week from a database, depending on how often the backend is updated.
- Hayarotle 5y agoThere's https://curlie.org https://curlie.org , it even links to some old-style websites in its collection. I think there are some other sites with similar ideas too, where you can create groups and share bookmarks ( like https://groups.diigo.com https://groups.diigo.com )