When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original 'Surfers
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/technology/when-yahoo-ruled-the-valley-stories-of-the-original-surfers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Back in the mid-1990s, before Google even existed, the world's
best guides to the internet sat in Silicon Valley cubicles,
visiting websites and carefully categorizing them by hand.
They were called surfers, and they were a collection of mostly
20-somethings -- including a yoga lover, an ex-banker, a
divinity student, a recent college grad from Ohio hungry for
adventure -- all hired by a start-up called Yahoo to build a
directory of the world's most interesting websites. Today,
with more than one billion websites across the globe, the very
notion seems mad. Even then, there was a hint of insanity
about the enterprise.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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