My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

  • Nougat
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    111 year ago

    “Search engines” were often just human-curated indexes.

    • @fubo@lemmy.world
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      191 year ago

      Well, search engines e.g. AltaVista or Lycos always used “spiders” to crawl the web and index pages. But web directories like the original Yahoo! or Dmoz focused on human-curated classifications.

      • Plaid_Kaleidoscooe
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        41 year ago

        Those Yahoo links were great. Old Yahoo was fucking awesome. Especially pool… I remember everyone played. Using icq. It was great.