Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good

Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by holler on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:31PM (#22273391)

Man, I would be so pumped if I could find my old tripod site. I've looked before but I forgot the username and could never find it. One night as a young teen I decided to read a book "html for dummies", not knowing that 20+ years later the decision would pay off big!

Also, <marquee> tag and site counter's for life!

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by gothroach on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:44PM (#22273439)

Don't forget the venerable <blink> tag and the obligatory "Under Construction" GIF.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by paulmd on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:05AM (#22274026)

ah, the early days...

https://i.imgur.com/7mr0vjQ.gif

in seventh grade we had a "web" class that, as an assignment, wanted us to find "pen pals" on the internet (lmao great idea), and to make a personal site about whatever. I made an Escape Velocity site. Lots of under construction gifs even when I submitted it.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by dessant on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:36AM (#22274340)

> Lots of under construction gifs

Which ones were your favourites?

http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by bartread on Saturday February 08, 2020 @08:08AM (#22275529)

Wow. My eyes. The variety is tremendous.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by hnuser123456 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:30AM (#22274321)

I made a "smoke games" store page. It didn't have a functional shopping cart or anything, just basic HTML with some frames.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by holler on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:11AM (#22274253)

LOL wow, I totally forgot about that! I had more than a few pages with "under construction" including black and yellow striped image.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by reaperducer on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:26PM (#22273600)

And the .shtml guestbook.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by nicolaus on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:57PM (#22273737)

I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by reaperducer on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:48AM (#22275950)

I read it as "sheet metal" because there was an HTML editor of the era called "Hot Metal."

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by randomdude402 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:49AM (#22275958)

It was "dot shitmeal" for me.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by paulmd on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:06AM (#22274031)

or load-bearing CGI and perl...

(perl's OK, CGI had a lot more server side injection risk from what I remember)

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by post_below on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:26AM (#22274107)

CGI as in "Common Gateway Interface" or CGI.pm?

If the former, the injection vulnerability would be in the script talking to the server/database via CGI, rather than in CGI itself.

If the latter I don't remember any major unpatched vulnerabilities in CGI.pm, but it was epically inefficient.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by paulmd on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:07AM (#22274038)

google has a searchable cache of the internet from like 2004 as they crawled it, and they put it up once or twice for nostalgic giggles.

they really should put it up for science, so you can look up the shit that's been keyword-buried since then.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by rodolphoarruda on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:12PM (#22277707)

I could say the same about my old Geocities site...

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by olliej on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:17PM (#22285622)

I wish I could find my old geocities site - it had some early (win3.1) apps I wrote.

IIRC they were not good.

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by adreamingsoul on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:50AM (#22274391)

Same here.

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