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Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
(news.ycombinator.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
That’s pretty much what all of the site aggregators were. I ran a couple of communities on yahoo and some other sites. There were also services like Archie, gopher, and wais, and I am pretty sure my Usenet client had some searching on it (it might have been emacs - I can’t remember anymore). I remember when Google debuted on Stanford.edu/google and realized that everything was about to change.