The ODP's goal was to build a Yahoo-like web directory, but with an open model, relying on volunteers from the web to organize sites rather than a paid staff. The ODP is approximately 5 million sites, organized into 600,000 categories. About 75,000 volunteers have contributed over the lifetime of the project. The ODP's web driven user-generated content model was somewhat novel at the time, and helped inspire the model for Wikipedia.
The Distributed Yahoo: 'NewHoo' (Wired)
Netscape Acquires NewHoo (Wired)
Google: We're down with ODP (Salon)
'Link Different': Selling Out and Selling Up Online (Village Voice)
That Barnes -- he was something. She should have taken a lesson.
Puffed out her chest and walked through life -- "I want the biggest
and the best and the most of whatever you've got!"
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