Retro TechieThe AltaVista search engine in 1997
#RetroTech #90sComputing #Windows95 #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #PCHistory #TechThrowback #NostalgicVibes #1990sTech #AltaVista
Walled CultureWhy Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster
Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]
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Reverend ElvisThe first website I ever visited.
At any rate, the first one I can remember. It must have been 1995 or 1996. I found it on AltaVista; there were 11 results for ‘Psychobilly.’ Before the masses took over everything.
https://word.undead-network.de/2026/05/23/the-first-website-i-ever-visited/
#altavista #anarchisttimes #free #internet #roythemat #theearlydays #wreckingpit
Leif SamuelssonLong live #AltaVista!
Holger 
Harzretro@MetaGer Hach, kenne #metager schon länger als google ....
Und wenn ich dann noch an #altavista und #astalavista denke ... :)
Und wenn ich dann noch an #altavista und #astalavista denke ... :)
Bhaskar ChowdhuryYO 🤟 I had my first-ever "email address" on this domain ....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HB8NnOoXQAEkuH3?format=jpg&name=medium
PS: And in almost the same time as Lycos, too.
Bhaskar ChowdhuryYO 🤟 I had my first-ever "email address" on this domain ....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HB8NnOoXQAEkuH3?format=jpg&name=medium
PS: And in almost the same time as Lycos, too.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬Search pioneer #AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the #webportal trend
The original fast and clean internet search destination launched on December 15, 1995, with an enormous (for the time) 16 million pages indexed. Within a year of its establishment, it scaled from a day-one workload of handling 300,000 user queries to tens of millions of requests every day.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/search-pioneer-altavistas-star-shone-bright-with-a-clean-and-minimal-ui-30-years-ago-engine-lost-momentum-after-multiple-ownership-changes-and-the-embrace-of-the-web-portal-trend
The original fast and clean internet search destination launched on December 15, 1995, with an enormous (for the time) 16 million pages indexed. Within a year of its establishment, it scaled from a day-one workload of handling 300,000 user queries to tens of millions of requests every day.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/search-pioneer-altavistas-star-shone-bright-with-a-clean-and-minimal-ui-30-years-ago-engine-lost-momentum-after-multiple-ownership-changes-and-the-embrace-of-the-web-portal-trend
CBC OttawaThis 'spectacle' of a snowman is so big his nose is a traffic cone
A massive snowman stands guard over a quiet street in Ottawa's Alta Vista neighbourhood. Hallie Cotnam dropped by to meet Stan and his creators.
#weather #snowman #AltaVista
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7037104?cmp=rss
A massive snowman stands guard over a quiet street in Ottawa's Alta Vista neighbourhood. Hallie Cotnam dropped by to meet Stan and his creators.
#weather #snowman #AltaVista
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7037104?cmp=rss
