Do you remember when you started your first directory. Before you were really familiar with the directory market and what it required to become successful or get into it? Here we take a look at some popular well known directories and their different stages of their life. How human we all are.......... Alive Directory Today | 3-12-05 | 01-01-06 | 02-01-07 Aviva Directory Today | 27-02-05 | 01-01-05 | 08-04-06 | 20-07-06 Zorg Links Today | 01-07-07 Big Web Links Today | 08-03-07 .
2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20060528093725/http://www.forplex.com/ Now today http://www.forplex.com/
Thanks for a window to the past, so much has changed on these sites, I wished I had a site back in 2005 or even before that.
DataPlace Worldwide Hotels & Accommodation April 7,2000 http://web.archive.org/web/20000407065458/http://www.dataplace.to/ http://web.archive.org/web/20000607020913/www.dataplace.to/about.htm now our Travel Directory is http://www.dataplace.to/ Over 150,000 Uniques per month minimum
Good post Derek, and most importantly, an indicative reminder that everyone has to start somewhere and somehow. nobody 'ruled' the web then, so it was easy... *sigh*... f* gaygle.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/alpha.google.com/ Man my site has the same PR as google alpha! Gr8 find dagre! and the OP! AND.... they have loads of Job openings tooo.... interested? http://web.archive.org/web/19991106023352/www.google.com/jobs.html
Thanks for a window to the past.... Its always good to see how sites evolved over the period of time BWD is still new (at least i think so) so there is not not much history to it. We still have a long way to go.
too bad I don't have an archive of my "directory" which is now considered as link farms.. hehehe.. I think I got over ten thousand links on just one page! haha