THat feels different to me. You're being fed a continous drip (or firehose!) based on a cohort of people probably much like yourslef (HN) or an algo desperately trying to shovel you more of the same (Google). Exploring the Internet IMO is more like clicking down the wikipedia rabbit hole, or evry link on those old email lists of "cool stuff this week", then every link on those sites. Or web rings!