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[–] [email protected] 40 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Could you imagine a world where word of mouth became the norm again? Your friends would tell you about websites, and those sites would never show on search results because crawlers get stuck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

That would be terrible, I have friends but they mostly send uninteresting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No they wouldn't. I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember a time before search engines. The public web dies without crawling. Corporations will own it all you'll never hear about anything other than amazon or Walmart dot com again.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Nope. That isn't how it worked. You joined message boards that had lists of web links. There were still search engines, but they were pretty localized. Google was also amazing when their slogan was "don't be evil" and they meant it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

No. Only very selective people joined message boards. The rest were on AOL, compact or not at all. You're taking a very select group of.people and expecting the Facebook and iPad generations to be able to do that. Not going to happen. I also noticed some people below talking about things like geocities and other minor free hosting and publishing site that are all gone now. They're not coming back.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was there. People carried physical notepads with URLs, shared them on BBS', or other forums. It was wild.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There was also "circle banners" of websites that would link to each others... And then off course "stumble upon"...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yes! Web rings!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

I forgot web rings! Also the crazy all centered Geocities websites people made. The internet was an amazing place before the major corporations figured it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Better yet. Share links to tarpits with your non-friends and enemies