If it behooves you, instead of thinking any more about Twitter—hit us with some PDFs, some incomprehensible sociology, a fact about your town, some poetry no one cares about, political theory that will never land, obscure social history, climate links, math things, some tech so obscure 20 people use it. We want your inner noise. Just push the gas on your own ephemeralism and launch us into the future.

@ftrain

did you know/remember that Digital offered AltavlVista as a set of inter/intranet tools?

https://archive.org/details/altavista-brochure-hebrew/mode/1up

this is from my project to save the digital history of Israel.

#IsraelDigitalHistory

אלטה ויסטה לאינטרנט - מנוע חזק עם כל התוספות : Digital Equipment Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

בדיגיטל משוכנעים שהאינטרה-נט הוא הכלי העסקי הבא, שבאמצעותו יוכל העסק שלך להצליח, להתרחב...

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@hananc @ftrain Alta Vista was my go-to search engine in 1996. Those were the days.
@ftrain @dbsalk @hananc Alta Vista is the Marvin Gaye of search engines.
@mattshortridge @ftrain @hananc Did Alta Vista also sing the National Anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game? 😉
@dbsalk @hananc @ftrain I used Altavista all the time. It was just so clean. No ads, IIRC.

@Gillinger @dbsalk @hananc @ftrain

Suddenly, I'm remembering watching the interlaced gif logo of WebCrawler slowly appear before me. Funny how some things are so banal, yet so indelible.

@RL_Dane @Gillinger @hananc @ftrain I remember WebCrawler! IIRC, it was run by AOL.

1995 was a good time on the Internet. Everyone was still trying to figure stuff out, and at the blazing speed of 33.3k baud.

Kind of like Mastodon right now, but without the screeching modems. 😉 #SearchEngines #DialUp #RetroTech

@dbsalk @Gillinger @hananc @ftrain

Yeah, screeching modems have been replaced by screeching influencers, but those are easily muted. 😂