[teh_klev]

Back in the day you bought magazines like ".NET" (a UK publication) that told you where the hotspots were on the web.

There were other physical publications like the "Internet White Pages" or some such thing (no seriously) which I remember seeing in UK bookshops and thinking "that's gonna be outa date in a week or two".

Back then you felt you could contain all of the websites (or pointer sites) in your head. It was truly an exciting and exploratory time.

Oh and I forgot, using KA9Q [1] for your TCP/IP stack on Windows 3.1, because Microsoft had't quite caught up at that point. And hacking the UK's PSS network to find your way into a university that was connected so you could access usenet. And the early days of Demon Internet in the UK....oh the nostalgia of it all :)

[1]: http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/

[thejosh]

Ah yes, you are probably referring to the Internet Yellow Pages[1], use to be one of my favourite things to use at a library and write down websites..

http://i.imgur.com/1n6mH4N.jpg

[teh_klev]

That one as well. But there was also "The 1994 Internet White Pages" published by Wiley Press which is credited with Seth Godin as a co-author [1][2].

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/HxDWs9c.jpg [2]: http://amzn.com/1568843003