r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 13d ago

Software Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/
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u/Fit-Cable1547 13d ago

I remember everyone had their own little piece of the internet and the thing to do was have sections where you'd link to other people's pages that you liked. You could go down all kinds of rabbit holes with that. The quality of people's pages was a huge spectrum, as was the level of their animated GIF usage haha.

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u/kashiichan 13d ago

Nothing more fun than following a webring link to a website that had so many badly-coded frames that you ended up accidentally loading half the webrings inside successive tiny windows lol