DMOZ is shutting down.

As of the 14th of March 2017, DMOZ will no longer run.
https://www.dmoz.org/
Launched in June 5, 1998; 18 years ago by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel while they were both working as engineers for Sun Microsystems.
You can read more about their rise to fame here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ

And some chatter around the SEO industry about it https://www.seroundtable.com/dmoz-is-closing-down-23481.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/dmoz-the-open-directory-project-to-close-this-march-513439.shtml
https://meshrepublic.com/dmoz-open-directory-project-shutting-down/

 

Anyone remember Altavista, HotBot

 

Thanks to all those editors that worked so hard rejecting nay ignoring my submissions.