Oct 20th 2008 12:36PM
DMOZ Time Machine
We recently ran across this screenshot of a very young DMOZ. Do you remember when the site looked like this? It was May of 1999, and the ODP was about a month shy of its first birthday. The directory was teetering on the half-million site mark in 78,000 categories maintained by 10,000 volunteer editors.
Fast-forward to June 5, 2003. A five-year-old DMOZ had attained its now-familiar look and feel. The directory's size had grown more than six-fold to 3.8 million sites in over 460,000 categories. The editor corps topped 50,000, and the World section – in its infancy in 1999 – accounted for 17% of all sites by mid-2003.
Fast forward one more time to today, October 20, 2008. A little more than a decade after its founding, the ODP has surpassed 4.6 million sites (more than 22% of which are in the World section) through the help and dedication of the 80,000+ editors who have contributed to DMOZ – that's a pretty amazing accomplishment for an all-volunteer force like ours!
As we noted a couple of weeks ago, we're hard at work on DMOZ 2.0 and we're really excited about what the next ten years will hold. If you'd like to help shape the ODP's second decade, consider becoming an editor!
Fast-forward to June 5, 2003. A five-year-old DMOZ had attained its now-familiar look and feel. The directory's size had grown more than six-fold to 3.8 million sites in over 460,000 categories. The editor corps topped 50,000, and the World section – in its infancy in 1999 – accounted for 17% of all sites by mid-2003.
Fast forward one more time to today, October 20, 2008. A little more than a decade after its founding, the ODP has surpassed 4.6 million sites (more than 22% of which are in the World section) through the help and dedication of the 80,000+ editors who have contributed to DMOZ – that's a pretty amazing accomplishment for an all-volunteer force like ours!
As we noted a couple of weeks ago, we're hard at work on DMOZ 2.0 and we're really excited about what the next ten years will hold. If you'd like to help shape the ODP's second decade, consider becoming an editor!
1. Wow, I actually DO remember the version from 1999. Became an editor in 2000 and wow... look at how far things have come. :)
Posted at 6:44PM on Oct 20th 2008 by Devin Reams
2. I remembered that time, submitting sites to search engine was more popular than directories, later people started to notice how directories are the KEY!
Posted at 10:07AM on Oct 22nd 2008 by rosalind
3. I think it might be time for a redesign
Posted at 3:41PM on Oct 23rd 2008 by Chris
4. I think a new design might be confusing
Posted at 9:02PM on Nov 22nd 2008 by Cynthia Joffrion
5. thanks a lot very nice
Posted at 8:50AM on Nov 27th 2008 by ftkdogalgaz
6. its great.. but i mean many sub directory make confuse..im ready submitt my blog since 3week ago but im not inform yet about status myblog. and 1 week ago im try to re submitt. i dont know maybe im wrong submit subdirectory or others problem. please help to review myblog many tks .. dmoz its best solution i think
Posted at 3:20PM on Dec 9th 2008 by money-holic