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The Spark: A Fond Farewell (dir.yahoo)

That's all she wrote.

(Photo by Jonathan Blocker)

In the beginning, it was just the Yahoo! Directory -- of course, it wasn't
called "the directory" then: it was just _Yahoo!_. And when David and Jerry's
pet dissertation-stalling project became more work than they could manage on
their own, they assembled a team of unusual helpers. These "surfers" were a
strange assortment -- ex-librarians, inquisitive generalists, obsessive-
compulsives -- but they shared a few key traits: curiosity, an endless
appetite for knowledge, and a passion for organizing information. Their goal
(beyond satifying their own curiosity) was to help other users of the
fledgling Internet find what they needed... even if they didn't know they
needed it.

The Spark wasn't there from the beginning, but once it launched, it seemed
that it had been inevitable. For years we surfers had been discovering new and
niche and surprising topics, digging deep into the Web for more information,
and packaging it neatly for others to enjoy. It was a logical step to write a
little snippet about a new category we'd created, or a new interest or event
we'd learned about. Over the years we wrote short posts that barely scratched
the ...

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