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Search engines and web directories
In contrast to contemporary search engines like Google, search engine websites in the 1990s were both search engines and web directories which means that they allowed for free-text search as we know it today, as well as they presented a curated list of links to websites, usually ordered in content categories like ‘News’, ‘Sport’, ‘Art and culture’, ‘Entertainment’, ‘Society’, and the like. These websites were often linked to from a website owner’s web page with links, and they constitute one of the most comprehensive access points to the Danish web of the 1990s.
The following list includes the most widespread search engines and web directories on the Danish web in the 1990s as they can be found in the Internet Archive. Three are Danish, one is international. Please note that the search engines have been preserved at different points in time which means that they display different temporal slices of the Danish web. The links to the search engines below point to the earliest archived version (year mentioned in parenthesis).
Jubii.dk (1998) 
Yahoo.dk (1998) 
Kvasir.dk (1998) 
Webcrawler.com (1996) 
Web collections
The Internet Archive — the world’s largest collection of archived web.
Web Design Museum — collections of thousands of screen shots and videos of old websites, from 1990s to mid-2000s.
Web Design Museum’s YouTube channel.
Last updated 30 July 2024
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