@elilla @oluOnline Back then, I found so many things (from NL) as well through *specialized* web directories - sites that collected all sorts of weird/experimental/artful links (like Leejoo), or sites that had categorized links on specific knowledge topics (Startpagina and a couple others were entire platforms for this), and so on.

There was also very early social media here like Clubs.nl, which let people create communities around certain topics, and they were often full of external links to sites on their respective topic(s) as well.