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> Web sites are so hard to come by these days that you need a special place to collect them.

When the web was nascent sites like Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo!, and others created indexes you could browse by category, right?

Yes. The front page of the internet used to consist of websites. Now you need to go to a special niche place to find the websites.

> The front page of the internet

There was never “the” frontpage.

For a very brief period, the netscape whats new page(s) did function in this way, but that didn't last very long.