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This feels like I got off a well-travelled freeway and got on the beautiful and quirky back-roads, seeing a whole different side of the web.

It's also making me realize how dependent† I've become on search engines. Don't get me wrong, they are great at what they do, but seeing these curated list of sites definitely reminds me of the late 90's where directories were still a thing.

†: ie. lazy.

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Max's previous post [1] touches on the some of the ideas from the early 90s internet that we're starting to see return today.

I'm personally most excited to to watch the return and rise of niche self-run communities that were greatly supressed during the early days of social media.

[1] https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/

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