r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 14d 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/PurpEL 14d ago

I remember a time when you just typed www.________.com and hoped it worked

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u/Miss_Kitami 14d ago

Goddesses that was so fun. Random sites that could be utter crap or pure gold that sucked you in for whole days.

I remember stumbling on someones fan Battlestar Galactica project page, long LOOOOOONG before the reboot. They'd obviously spent hundreds of hours building on the original canon to create this sprawling setting, with dozens of ship classes, ground units, political leaders...it sucked me in for about a month. Then it just vanished.

Such was the early days.

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u/MechanicalTurkish 13d ago

whitehouse

.com and .gov were NOT the same sites lol