Links to links

Remember when TriPod was new? It was 1996 or so and every page on Geocities was awful and had links pages so unorganized they would often appear on Mirsky's Worst of the Web.

Now we have Tumblr (?), which is a graphics mess of a "blog", 1and1 and all these "easy to use" tools to blog stuff. FB has a blog feature no one uses.

How about those early "How to Use the Internet" books? What about Usenet Newsgroups? People still use them widely according to Wikipedia. Remember Lynx? Or the VAX? Still out there. I have free and pretty bad pages splattered all over the Web on sites like Visual CV, WordPress, xanga, MySpace, MySpace artist, Stickam (what was I thinking?), and a multitude of user accounts on other sites like NewsWorks, topix and even free web site hosting/building tools like Comcast. I had forgotten about my wife's 50th birthday site there.

 I cannot remember how to access or edit some of them them or even find them. I used a service back in 1994 or so that NBC created but it disappeared around 1997. Maybe the Wayback machine can find it.

My bud Saul had dozens of sites it seems on yi.org (some kind of free domain service) but he may have scaled back. Anyway, here's to pages that have links to links. Long may they wave. The web is full.