An Almanac of the Internet
My search for software engineering data has turned me into a frequent buyer of second-hand computer books, many costing less than the postage of £2.80. When the following suggestion popped up along-side a search, I could not resist; there must be numbers in there!
The concept of an Almanac will probably be a weird idea to readers who grew up with search engines and Wikipedia. But yes, many years ago, people really did make a living by manually collecting information and selling it in printed form.
One advantage of the printed form is that updating it requires a new copy, the old copy lives on unchanged (unlike web pages); the disadvantage is taking up physical space (one day I will probably abandon this book in a British rail coffee shop).
Where did Internet users hang out in 1997?
The history of the Internet, as it appeared in 1997.
Of course, a list of web sites is an essential component of an Internet Almanac:
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