Subj : Re: Computers
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 09:49:00

³  > I still have that Whole Internet book! I think its funny that once upon a
³  > time, all of the internet could fit in one book.
³
³ One of the first email lists I was on was "What's New on the Web...", a list of
³ new web sites. The list was probably pretty much complete, encapsulated in a
³ weekly email list.
³
³ I'm re-watching Halt and Catch Fire season 4 now - they captured that early web
³ period well.
ÀÄ[PF=>D]
 
Reading about that book, and the email list you were on, made me think of
that show and the "Comet" website, which was like an early version of Yahoo
except that instead of the site crawling the web, they actually added new
sites to Comet manually.
 
I never realized that people actually did that.
 
Mike
 
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