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And the award for "clickbait title of the month" goes to...

The article makes some good points despite being written from the perspective of someone too young to remember the time without significant link rot when most websites were someone's home (and equally permanent), links came from people, and search engines were an immature competitor to curated directories.

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Regretted the title about 20 minutes after "publishing". Mistakes were made. I do remember directories and personal pages though. I still stumble across them from time to time and it's such a pleasure. This was my latest discovery: http://www.macdougallelect.com

Around 1994, when the choice of technological platform for someone's public internet presence was between FTP or Gopher or HTTP from a server on their own network, all pages were a curated publication. Corruption required a lot of time and technology.

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