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.
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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