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What it's like to be a developer in 2024 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Wiz@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago

We need a human-curated Internet search. A wiki of good web content.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is (was) DMOZ: the Mozilla Directory of websites, now curlie.org, after AOL shut it down in 2017.

They have a Patreon if you want to help them maintain it.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh cool, somebody signed up, they have more supporters today.

[-] gitamar@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago

The return of web directories 🤩 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Back to 90s internet you say?

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 2 years ago

I forgot how this worked until I discovered NeoCities. I suddenly remenbered when so many personal websites would have some page that's like "links" or "sites I love" or "other cool people", etc. And it was just a curated list of sites the author thought were neat.

And your bookmark function was actually really helpful, because "web surfing" was literally jumping from link to link to link, following rabbitholes and breadcrumb trails across the web.

Nowadays, I bookmark things but I never go back through them. I know Firefox sometimes automatically helps you remember stuff in your bookmarks though.

But there was a time when it felt like finding some niche site was a sort of secret club or cool treasure, and you had to make sure you could find your way back. :)

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

When you didn't make the bookmark, you were basically trying to backtrack which links you followed and what sites you visited to get back to that one website.