for no reason, the memory of "_why the lucky stiff" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff has flashed in my head.

at that time i was very attracted by hoodwink.d, basically an idea of web annotation 10 years ago

"What we're doing is clandestine
off-web experimentation and it is of the utmost importance that we
remain concealed and uncatalogued by the major search engines"

— http://web.archive.org/web/20051125122020/http://hoodwinkd.hobix.com/
— http://ruby-talk.ruby-lang.narkive.com/buiXXTZh/what-is-hoodwink-d
— https://www.thecodingforums.com/threads/ann-the-mousehole-proxy-1-0-a-greasemonkey-alternative.824085/

do you remember more of it?