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It’s just… always been my main browser.

Babelfish was so impressive in its day. Felt like living in the future.

Hey have you ever been to https://www.neocities.org? It’s reminiscent of geocities and kind of cool.

:) yeah it was cool.

Sorry if I sounded disagreeable, I didn’t mean to be. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.

I have to admit if it comes to anything in my field I mostly find good content through discussion groups too.

But for me, in terms of personal interests and some other stuff, the 90s internet was full of static lists of links, even webrings etc. It was great because most people I knew irl who were my age weren’t online. I could only add people from other countries on Friendster because my flatmates refused to use it and my friends didn’t know what it was!

During that time, we would find interesting web pages through people and/or specific interests.

I beg to differ, during that time I found most of my interesting content through AltaVista and its weird cousin HastaLaVista, and aggregators like Portal of Evil (though, bad example, I seem to recall PoE was pretty much the same time as google).

According to this Ted talk (at about 8:15) Amazon tried a resume filtering AI but discovered it was filtering out women.