StumbleUpon and Googling random things I was either interested in or had randomly entered my mind. Lots of older sites also had a links section with links to either relevant stuff or just other things the site owner was in to.
Ask HN: How did you browse the internet before aggregators and social media?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you browse the internet before aggregators and social media?
#22I could paraphrase this as: I've grown up with the map, I've never really learned how to explore the territory.
As any bureaucracy knows, who makes the map controls the territory :)