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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by zamnos on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:07AM (#35052842)
There was a brief moment in 1999 when this tiny startup came on the scene and introduced a search engine that was so much better that all the rest of them functionally died off. Before SEO bots destroyed a lot of that particular search engine's results, it made the Internet feel much more organized, and just typing in what you wanted made it quite easy to navigate! It's now a quarter century later and Google Search has plenty of critics, but for one brief moment in history, the act of finding things on the Internet took a giant leap forwards.
Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by cbm-vic-20 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:01AM (#35054823)
I miss AltaVista, too.
Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by Zetice on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:35AM (#35056467)
Uh, Google Search was only as good as the as Internet was back then, and in 99 it was pretty bad…