My dad's bookmark from 2005 made me rethink how I search for stuff

I was cleaning up my bookmarks folder last night and found one my dad saved ages ago called 'how to tie a sheepshank knot.' It was this super basic text-only page with no pictures. I showed him and he laughed, said back then you just saved whatever you found and hoped it was right. It hit me how different browsing is now compared to the early internet. Has anyone else kept old bookmarks from like 15 years ago just because they remind you of something?

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claire99218d ago

Wait, a text only page with no pictures for tying knots? That sounds crazy to me. I would have been totally lost trying to follow that without any diagrams. My dad had a similar old bookmark for a recipe that was just a block of text with no photos and the measurements were all off by like half. It's wild to think we used to just trust whatever random page popped up and hoped for the best.

ramirez.daniel18d ago

Lol right? The first time I tried to tie a bowline knot from a text-only page I ended up with something that looked more like a tangled shoelace than an actual knot. My buddy still brings it up every time we go camping, like remember that time you tried to hang the bear bag and it just fell on the ground? Classic stuff. Honestly though, those old bookmark pages had a certain charm even if they were totally unreliable. Half the fun was figuring out what the writer actually meant by "loop the end through the other thing" haha.