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Before Google became big, there were web directories. You could submit your own website there and assign it to a category. And then, with luck, you were found.

Modern search engines soon put an end to this by automatically indexing websites, and no one had to submit their website anywhere anymore. But these directories never completely disappeared.

Anyone with their own personal website can still submit to such directories and lists today and also discover other websites through them.

Here is a small list of lists - can't get much more meta than this!

"What is AI doing to us?" is one of the big questions currently circling many of us, especially those engaged in creative work. Will "AI" soon be writing all our texts? Do we even need illustrators anymore? Can AI not write the source code for that? Are they allowed to just collect all our data and make a product out of it?

Matthias runs the wonderful newsletter Own Your Web, which delves into topics related to personal websites every two weeks. In the eighth edition, Matthias focuses on Blogrolls.

While reading the newsletter, I always feel a bit nostalgic because it often discusses topics that have been around for so long but have somewhat faded away. Blogrolls certainly fall into that category.

40 years ago, the first Apple Mac was released. That makes it younger than me, which I must initially protest. However, when looking through old pictures in search of used computers, I have to admit that it's all been quite a long time.

I have been using Apple computers productively since around 2006. Before that, I spent a long time with Linux, even had this Linux blog, and was part of RadioTux. I found it great that I could configure almost everything the way I wanted with Linux. The terminal was a constant companion.