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The Top 25 web sites of 1994
Whenever I think about my first days on the web c. 1995 I think of WebCrawler, the original and for awhile the
best fulltext web search engine. WebCrawler's creator, Brian Pinkerton, is
now working for Technorati ranking the world's blogs, which isn't much different from what he was doing 12 years ago:
ranking the world's then-tiny population of web sites. Back in March 1994, about six weeks after WebCrawler's launch
and long before PageRank, Alexa, or del.icio.us, Pinkerton took stock of WebCrawler's index and ranked the 25 most-linked pages on the web. Back then
WebCrawler knew about 72,000 documents on 2,200 servers, and the number one most-linked page (plus seven of the other
24) belonged to CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, and was a page describing what, exactly, the WWW is. Of
course, every page on the Top 25 is now long gone, and most of them can't even be found in the Internet Archive, so the closest
you'll be able to get to that original #1 page is this archived version from 1992.
Number two on the Top 25 is the home page for NCSA's
Mosaic web browser, the direct predecessor to Netscape Navigator.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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