Keeping Lists of Links on the Internet
A lot of people do that, and for many different reasons. I do. I have a Word document that's always open in my Windows taskbar. If I visit a website that I think might be of interest to me at a later time, I copy its URL and type a few keywords into that document, so I can locate that website again if I need to return to it. This saves space in my browser's list of bookmarked sites, and helps me to find obscure websites again that don't get great Google search rankings. It's like my own personal little search engine.
Other people keep link lists of other things, and for other reasons. There are websites where people work together to post links to stuff that is of interest to the people who frequent those sites, along with notes about what's there. There's a boating website I used to frequent that had such a list, which made it pretty easy to find, say, an obscure website that sold parts for obsolete outboard motor brands and things like that. Lists like that are very useful for very specific, obscure information.
There are even malicious websites and forums that maintain lists of links in secret, hidden forums that are not accessible by the general public or even by most members of that website. Usually those links are not there to serve any good purpose, but to provide quick access to negative information or links about people that can be used against them, if that is desirable for some reason. Such link lists make it possible to find "embarrassing" things from long ago and even sometimes on websites that no longer exist. Such malicious link lists exist in many places, and are sometimes noticed when more than one person uses the list's information in the same place.
People like lists. Some people make sort of a fetish of keeping lists. We're a list-keeping sort of animal, it seems.
