DMOZ Has Officially Closed

DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web.

DMOZ — the Open Directory Project — authoritatively shut today. The move comes three days after the fact than initially arranged. It denote the finish of a period of people attempting to list the whole web.

DMOZ was a venture intended to sort out the web utilizing volunteer human editors and conceived amid a period when an adversary to the prevailing Yahoo Directory was viewed as required. About 19 years after the fact, neither catalog lives, with machine-controlled web crawlers having made them bygone.