Bevor das Internet kommerzialisiert wurde, war es skurril, wunderbar und zutiefst persönlich. Menschen erstellten Webseiten, einfach weil sie etwas zu teilen hatten. Einige davon gibt es immer noch. Early Web Links ist voll von Seiten, die dieses Gefühl wieder aufleben lassen.
The early web was a different place. People built websites about their cats, their favorite TV shows, their rock collections. There were no algorithms deciding what you’d see. No engagement metrics. No content strategies. Just people sharing what they loved with whoever happened to stop by.
That spirit never fully went away. There are still people out there hand-coding HTML, tending personal sites, and linking to each other through webrings, blogrolls, and link pages. But finding those sites has gotten really hard. Search engines bury them under commercial results, and most people have been convinced that the only way to have a presence online is through someone else’s platform.
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(via MeFi)
