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I agree with you, although I wonder how we found the great fascinating wild websites before search engines even existed. I remember “web rings” but I don't think that's the whole story.

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For a long time, search engines weren't nearly as SEO-gamed as they are now

You could bring back web directories.

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We've more or less always had search engines as long as there has been a public Internet. But web directories were a thing early on too.

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