“It was the way to find out about websites that might interest you.”

Ars Technica · Aug 6 · Ars Technica revisits the pre-Google search era of the 1990s web

“I got on Usenet in 1990 as a student in Durham, North Carolina… it was delightful, especially the alt.* and misc.* groups. People would put links in at the bottom of their posts, and awareness grew organically.”

Ars Technica · Aug 6 · Ars Technica revisits the pre-Google search era of the 1990s web

“Then a couple of years later, webrings popped up. You'd get a block of code and put it on the bottom of your site's HTML page, and it would embed a link to the next website related to this one.”

Ars Technica · Aug 6 · Ars Technica revisits the pre-Google search era of the 1990s web