Dmoz – The Open Directory Project

And the purpose of this is...

This has been around since 1998.

Dmoz nearly died in 2006...

http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet....

What is old is new, I still want a good directory site like this. Spam is just crazy though. I wonder if you could set it up as a request to mail in links via filled out form. That would cut down on the junk.

I have no idea why people would upvote this story.

It is a book containing a bunch of links sorted by categories. Anyone can submit, it has to be approved by some people and then you are on it and maybe other search engines will use it. Although, I doubt anyone is using DMOZ nowadays. It is pretty old... I'm surprised it is still up.

If I had something interesting to say about that, I ran into their list of cryptographers:

* http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Applications/Communication_...

* http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Applications/Communication_...

I have no idea how they made it. It seems pretty random.