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Ahh, from the era when the entire internet filled a phone book. I bought the internet yellow pages in 95, 96 and 97. You could physically see exponential growth
by yardie 17y ago
Ahh, from the era when the entire internet filled a phone book. I bought the internet yellow pages in 95, 96 and 97. You could physically see exponential growth as the yellow pages went from the thickness of a small novel to the thickness of the NYC yellow pages.
- pmjordan 17y agoWow, I never realised there used to be a physical book. Was this basically the WHOIS data in print form? Just DNS or IP ranges too?
- dantheman 17y agoThe internet yellow pages was much like the current yellow pages, you navigate to a category and then it lists all the domains and a small description that are in that category. Some larger sites would receive a half a page or more describing them.
- eli 17y agoYup, there were a couple of these print books back in the day. How else were you supposed to find sites when there was no decent search, no decent directory, and lots of stuff simply wasn't on the web (yet).