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Internet in 1997. That is when the web was small enough that you did not need Google, you just used a 1200 page "internet yellow pages" book [1]

Around that time the book form became untennable so they started switching to CDROM versions [2]

[1] https://archive.org/details/luckmansworldwid0000unse_1997ed/... [2] https://archive.org/details/new-riders-www-yellow-pages-1997

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True!

Another surprising format:

I was starting my 'career' in 1999, in a Spanish TV production company. I remember a guy that had a business selling a 'curated' Netscape bookmarks collection. Can't remember the price, but the company paid for it, and he sent it in some physical format (diskettes?), and we imported it to our writers computers.

Globomedia?

No, it was a super small company tied to a school textbook publisher. They did a bunch of documentaries for TV and some multimedia content that was used to support some of the textbooks in classes. They (the production company) hasn't existed for almost 20 years, the publisher outsourced most of that work.

Anaya Multimedia? Santillana? One of those maybe.

With Macromedia Director or similar, I'd guess.

It was Anaya TV, but I think they only existed for 3 or 4 years, 98 to 00 or something like that. They did full regular video, some of it for TV, and I think they put some of the video on CDs that came with the teacher's edition of some textbooks.

Also they had programming books, even translated ones, if I recall it well.

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