I just came upon some references to Web Squirrel, software by @eastgate from 20ish years ago. I am amazed I never heard of it before – I remember and have used Twig and StorySpace, but this was a new one.
I am curious if @eastgate has any memories to share or links to websites about it that are still online. I am curious about it as an ancestor that feeds into the current Tinderbox app.
The above PDF is (the late) Rosemary Simpson’s Hypertext '01 article (here in the ACM Library).
Eastgate Systems also had a short article in the 1996 SIGWEB newsletter in 1996, here.
Plus, courtesy of the Internet Archive, Web Squirrels FAQ as at 3 November 1996. Note: the IA is good for this sort of task (if a site is known to the IA spider).
Web Squirrel wasn’t quite a Tinderbox ancestor, but ideas from Web Squirrel did make it into Tinderbox.
Thanks for the info! I think the 2nd and 3rd links are unintentionally the same as the first
Doh! Copy/paste fail.
#2 is the published location of #1, the PDF you found (lest you need to cite it!). Meanwhile, above I’ve just fixed #3 to point to the correct URL (in the Internet Archive).
Apologies. 
The past is another country…
In 1997 (the time of the articles above) the main browsers were Netscape Navigator 4, Internet Explorer 4, and Opera v3—the days of the browser wars.
No Google either. The search engines were Yahoo!, AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, and WebCrawler. I think Ask Jeeves I’d have been using AltaVista at that time and (the need for) bookmarking was different. More “I may never find this again” than today’s “where did I find that…”
Probably faster too, as no AI bots clogging up the intertubes. Most academic sites now have a significant delay (“are you human?” test, then wait whilst ‘checking’) while the bots happily push by and hoover up copyrighted content and bandwidth.
In 1997 the best way to stock up on 3.5" floppies was to go to the mall and pick up a stack of the floppies AOL was giving away as a promotion. They held a whopping 1.44 MB!
Nothing in that sentence is true anymore.
AOL keeps giving. The CDs we use as bird scarers on our veg patch are all AOL. I think the number of CDs mailed out was near ∞ per household, so no wonder they made no money.