Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good

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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