Topsites: The Original Social Network
Before Twitter. Before Instagram. Before any of it.There were topsites.
You built a site. You joined a topsite ring. You put a banner in your footer. People clicked it. You got ranked. The community discovered you organically.
No algorithm decided who was worth finding. No corporation boosted paid content. Just people clicking banners because they were curious.
It was the purest form of community discovery the internet ever produced and we threw it away.
