Back then the internet wasn’t so persistently and automatically indexed, so most people used a portal that indexed as it went at semi-regular intervals. But the whole “google spiders crawling for pages” thing didn’t really exist and a lot of them did it entirely manually.
Basically take a website homepage concept and apply it to your browser internet navigation. The portal would be how you search/navigate initially.
I don’t know what they mean by ‘portal litter’, but lol. They do every other thing they listed now.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-websites-90s_n_2542393
If you go to AOL or Yahoo, they still have this kind of stuff. Dunno if there’s an actual market or if they’re just clinging to it in desperation.
Also check: https://www.compuserve.com/ owned by the same company.
It is the same site as https://isp.netscape.com/
I wonder what was in the cool Y2K survival kit.
I need to know!
Back then the internet wasn’t so persistently and automatically indexed, so most people used a portal that indexed as it went at semi-regular intervals. But the whole “google spiders crawling for pages” thing didn’t really exist and a lot of them did it entirely manually.
Basically take a website homepage concept and apply it to your browser internet navigation. The portal would be how you search/navigate initially.
What, like the front page of Wikipedia? Just a bunch of links?
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