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!
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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!
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