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      10 months ago

      Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

      The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo! 's first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web. When Yahoo!

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        10 months ago

        Bot thinks the exclamation point at the end of Yahoo! is the end of the sentence. Cute bot.

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      10 months ago

      even netscape/mozilla was in on this game, with the open directory project (dmoz). aol eventually shut it down, but it apparently lives on independently as curlie.org - but i have no idea how current it is or anything.