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Argh, Yahoo is happening again!

(For the youth, this is basically what Yahoo was, originally; it was _ten years_ after Yahoo started before it had its own crawler-based search engine, though it did use various third parties after the first few years.)

Remember url.city? https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo...

With the rise of these retro-looking websites, I feel it's possible again to start using a browser from the '90s. Someone should make a static-site social media platform for full compatibility.

Having studied, and attempted to build, a few taxonomies / information hierarchies myself (a fraught endeavour, perhaps information is not in fact hierarchical? (Blasphemy!!!)), I'm wondering how stable the present organisational schema will prove, and how future migrations might be handled.

(Whether for this or comparable projects.)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_classification>

This is cute, but I absolutely do not care about buying a omg.lol URL for $20/yr, and I'm not trying to be a hater because the concept is fine, but anybody who falls into this same boat should know this is explicitly "not for them"

Logins are built on https://home.omg.lol/ which is an amazing looking community!

Pretty on the nose that the only sports category is road cycling.

Just needs a Web Ring (:->

Neat - I wish it showed how many entries there are for each category. I was disappointed to see a Parenting category, with nothing in it.

Kind of like the indieseek.xyz directory. Love to see it.

Nice website. But do I need to buy a omg.lol subdomain before I can contribute links here? Why is it an omg.lol subdomain? I'm happy to buy a new domain, but not so happy about buying a subdomain. I'm not sure why I'd be paying omg.lol to contribute links to url.town? What's the connection between the two?

What's the selection criteria for being listed on the directory?

I just can’t stand reading serif fonts on a screen. The site is not compelling enough to power through the torture the font induces.

The fact that it already has categories for most hobbies but absolutely nothing for cars, motorbikes, or any mechanical engineering-related topic, makes me sad. I know it's not their fault - young people simply don't care anymore.

Cool, but I'd like us to get past the idea that a site has to use Times font to be retro.

Times is really not adapted for the web and is particularly bad on low-resolution screens. How many computer terminals used Times for anything but Word processing?

Verdana was released in 1996 — is that too recent?