[1970-01-01]

Long before MS deprecated "the blue E", you could still "walk the web" with Yahoo Categories. Yahoo shut down dir.yahoo.com years ago:

https://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-close-204370

I don't know if there are any replacements for it.

Most of the archive.org links are still working and the directory is still worth exploring:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140927131133/https://dir.yahoo...

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>I don't know if there are any replacements for it.

There was DMOZ (which Google has previously used to seed it's crawl) and now there's https://www.curlie.org/

[1970-01-01]

Nice find! This is a great answer to OP.