There were linklists with a lot of today's rules back before I started. The good old days when you would build one site, get it listed on persiankitty and it would just stay on the list and get rotated.
I still remember the day when I went from about 100 visitors/day to 50k. I think that day was in March of 96. Like a moron, I waited until July to get a real domain name. Next month my first domain turns 10
