What year is it? I haven't heard anyone talk about web portals since 1996...
Yeah lol. Search engines have gone down in quality so bad it really does feel like that. It has been so difficult finding stuff on google/duckduckgo etc that I have to rely on portals now.
Breakout the dial-up and ask your friends on irc for portals. Maybe there's a geocities community for it.
Lemmy
What’s Lemmy?
Lead singer of Motörhead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
All kinds if interesting, whacky stuff.
I can't believe I've never found this before, what a fun rabbit hole! Thanks for sharing! (And thanks to OP for asking this question too, lots of interesting answers here)
Oh man that's an antique word, you even had to define it. It's been entirely replaced by search engines and primarily social media now.
Ohhh. My day is done. GitHub’s list of Awesome. So much great stuff. Thanks for the topic and sharing.
No problem! Glad you found it useful!
Some time ago, i found Curlie - a Web Portal maintained by volunteers, just like Wikipedia i presume
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