I loved the insight of how the chronological method of organization took over the zeitgeist of the early Internet, pushing out the handcrafted lists/hierarchies into weird niches in the sidelines, and eventually leading to it being superseded by the algorithmic-sorting that dominates the web today.
It is not that we can't make a non-chronological (or non algorithmic-sorting) website now a days, we obviously can as there are many comments here listing various CMSs. But it is about how the vast majority of people don't do feel inclined to participate on the non-chrono/non-algo internet (either because they don't like it or don't know it). For them to put something out there in the internet is synonymous to put it on a chrono/algo format.
It is not that we can't make a non-chronological (or non algorithmic-sorting) website now a days, we obviously can as there are many comments here listing various CMSs. But it is about how the vast majority of people don't do feel inclined to participate on the non-chrono/non-algo internet (either because they don't like it or don't know it). For them to put something out there in the internet is synonymous to put it on a chrono/algo format.