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by TazeTSchnitzel 4748 days ago
So, the web back then is what Wikipedia is today?
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That's not a bad characterization.

Web pages were static, many were long-form, they tended to provide information, and link copiously to one another.

What they lacked was collaborative editing, though Ward Cunningham was already working on that at the time. Wikis postdated the Web only by a brief bit.