I dropped by my local garden centre a few days ago, to pick up some seeds, and on the way out I perused a charity bookshelf they had in the foyer.
I just couldn't resist this:
The Good Web Site Guide 2005....
I mean, the fact that here we have a BOOK of Websites is enough to demonstrate how DIFFERENT things were almost 20 years ago in 2005.
If you look inside the front cover this thing had sold 250K copies, so it was pretty popular.
Presumably people referred to it and typed in the URLs.... unless they were familiar with going to one the search engine of their choice such as www.google.co.uk, Ask Jeeves, or Mamma.com....
ASK JEEVES, Oh my dayz!
And Mama.com looks like it's seen better days too, it's now just offering a browser attachment to enhance information about sites you use.
The online job market looked very different....
The directory here is basically just limited to careers advice and job searching...
This is one of the main transformations I guess in the last 20 years (well, one of many) where you know upload your C.V. and there are full-on virtual matching services!
Or if they wanted books
There was this oddly named site called Amazon...
A max fun trip back in time...
It's funny going back to 2005, a time when online life hadn't become an all-in - it's like people actually mainly had offline lives and OCCASIONALLY dipped into the net for selected reasons.
Compare that to today when everything's integrated and many more people are living their lives MAINLY online.
Not sure it's better now, and I'm getting nostalgic for ye olden dayz.
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