FSF... Just WOW!

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

Just look at this! How come Stallman is not a joke?

Web rings, links exchanges, link aggregators(pre-reddit/digg) all were interesting models of decentralized web. Web sites back than were not concentrated on one thing and provided linking to related sites or link directories.

vlib.org is still around. DMOZ is closed, but there is a successor project launched at curlie.org