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And let's not forget how exciting it was to explore around in the original Yahoo!

Although the web doesn't seem to be thing we all dreamed about anymore, it's still amazing. Remember how hard it used to be to learn about anything? Now it's so easy...but the amount of knowledge itself is oppressive.

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When I started using the Internet in 1997, Yahoo had a feature where it let users upload their favorite sites. I would browse through those sites puzzled and delighted by the seemingly endless, random content. That was how I came across Peep Research (http://peepresearch.org/).

Ahh Silicon Investor. Powered by MS SQL Server stored procedures that essentially returned the entire HTML page. Real fast. Real hard to maintain.

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