My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.
My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.
Many different search engines with many different results. Searching for stuff was not very intuitive.
The wild west atmosphere was rather cool being a teenager, I must say.
“Search engines” were often just human-curated indexes.
Well, search engines e.g. AltaVista or Lycos always used “spiders” to crawl the web and index pages. But web directories like the original Yahoo! or Dmoz focused on human-curated classifications.
Those Yahoo links were great. Old Yahoo was fucking awesome. Especially pool… I remember everyone played. Using icq. It was great.
The wild west days of using Infoseek for your above-board searches, and Sinfoseek for the below-board ones.