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Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory

Posted by Soulskill on from the 27-people-are-going-to-be-very-upset-to-hear-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes You may or may not remember this, but before the advent of reliable search engines, web listings used to be a popular way to organize the web. Yahoo had one of the more popular hierarchical website directories around. On Friday, as part of its on-going streamlining process, Yahoo announced that their 20-year-old web directory will be no more: "While we are still committed to connecting users with the information they're passionate about, our business has evolved and at the end of 2014 (December 31), we will retire the Yahoo Directory."

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  1. Soft Spot for Yahoo Directory by LetterJ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While I haven't used it in years, like most geeks, I do have a soft spot for Yahoo's directory. I remember sitting in a college computer lab after Yahoo launched, visiting every link they included, amazed at this HUGE pile of information available at my fingertips. Funny to think of it now.

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  2. Re:Nostalgic about oil lamps? by dbc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yahoo wasn't keeping up when it was brand new. I remember using Yahoo when Mosaic, compiled from sources by yourself, was the recommended procedure for installing a web browser on my workstation at work. Yahoo wasn't keeping up even at that time.

  3. Safari monopoly by tepples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they'd install a decent browser (in addition to the crippled browser that came with their tablets)

    That would require buying a second noon-iPad tablet on which to run a non-crippled browser. Because the iOS API lacks support for runtime generation of executable code, all browsers in Apple's App Store are either Safari wrappers or, in the case of Opera Mini, remote desktop viewers.