Yahoo Directory, once the center of a web empire, will shut down at year’s end

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Yahoo Directory, a site that was once the center of Yahoo’s internet dynasty, is being shut down at the end of the year. However, unless you’ve been using the internet for a couple of decades, you’ve probably never heard of the site. Let’s hop in an internet time machine and set the dial back to 1994, when Jerry Lang and David Filo founded Yahoo. The site, „Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,“ was little more than a hand-curated list of sites on the internet, sorted by category.

Wer damals dort nicht gelistet war, den gab es im Internet nicht.