There was barely a web before AltaVista. I can remember buying "web directories" - physical books or magazines of nearly every website that existed at the time.

There was barely a web before AltaVista. I can remember buying "web directories" - physical books or magazines of nearly every website that existed at the time. Then there was the Yahoo Web Directory. I actually wish this would come back. A curated directory of major and trustworthy web locations would actually be pretty good, especially for less experienced web users who can otherwise be easily tricked.