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A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

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Re: A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

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Post by 1313ed01 »

thesuitonym wrote: post #5

I miss web indexes. It felt much more like an act of discovery to drill down to a topic I might not have otherwise been interested in to find some gem of a web page, and then to check that pages links and webrings. It always gives me joy to come across one, even if all the pages on it are long abandoned.

Reliving that is one of my favorite things about the wayback machine, usually starting from one of the big sites that indexed many topics, but the web-rings and obscure personal link collections are rarely more than a few clicks away from there.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo...

https://web.archive.org/web/19990125094806/http://www.direct...

Re: A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

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Post by mpeg »

swiftcoder wrote: post #11
eej71 wrote: post #8

If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy https://www.ck/

The lengths the Cook Islands have to go to prevent folks from registering profanity is entertaining (there was a spate of .co.ck novelty names before they locked it down)

“Check out my website yeah, trashbat dot cock, registered in the Cook Islands”

Nathan Barley is a great watch. It also has one of my favourite terms for a mobile phone “hand held twit machine” (pre smartphones)

Re: A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

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Post by pridkett »

donq1xote1 wrote: post #2

I just wanna say this is a such dope domain lol. How much does it cost?

During the old days lots of things were easier to get.

Semi related to this - Ian Goldberg famously had the email address n@ai (Ian backwards if you missed it) - which caused problems for many mail clients and validators. I’d imagine cypherpunks.ca is easier to use. I saw similar things with one of the Balkans in 1998 - I think it was Croatia, where some government officials had name@hr email addresses.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-January/...

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