Adam Sand remembers obsessively organizing Netscape bookmarks into categories like business and finance in the early internet days. He credits those bookmark libraries with launching his self-directed learning habit.
I had a friend named Paul Nye, and we were obsessed with Internet bookmarks. Back then, search engines were so terrible that you really were, like, all about getting a bookmark library. You were trying to basically save the Internet through bookmarks. Netscape was the browser of the time, sort of Google Chrome. And I remember we used to have these bookmark libraries, and I had like business and business espionage and finance and investing and real estate. You almost read stuff so that you could add it to your bookmark and then like, kind of flex on how many cool bookmarks you found. That's when I really found that the Internet was going to be the pathway through learning what I wanted wanted to do. I mean, it was just what I became obsessed with. Now go share this video.
