“And still, the center would not hold.”

It was not yet entirely obvious that 50 or even 100+ capable humans would never be able to keep up with the cambrian explosion of content that was the public internet in those days.

I’m extremely late linking to this, but I adore this remembrance of the early days of Yahoo! from one of my favorite coworkers.

And, if you don’t mind, here’s what I wrote about taking a job at Yahoo! (checks notes) eighteen years ago.