Was reminded today of getting online for the first time. Installing Trumpet Winsock and Netscape Navigator 1.0 from the dial-up ISP's 3.5" floppies. Using my 14.4k baud modem to dial in. And then opening Netscape and thinking... "what now".

I had a handful of URLs I had hand-copied from a library magazine. Those were the only places I knew where to go on the web. Later a friend introduced me to search engines. Either Lycos or Alta Vista.

And now the golden age of search has come to an end. Looking forward to the resurgance of hand-curated directories.

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