Yahoo! has retired the hand-curated web directory named Yahoo! Directory. Earlier in September this year, Ars Technica had written about it here.
The web directory started as the foundation of Yahoo!'s business when it started in January 1994 as Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. It was later renamed to Yahoo which became the acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
During the early days of the World Wide Web, web directories were a preferred way to discover and find content on the web but with the advent of crawler-based search engines, the relevance of web directories have diminished. Below is a screenshot (for remembrance) as the page was on December 20, 2014 - also archived here.
Google also had a web directory service which it shut down in July 2011. I have logged it here.
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