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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by lispy4 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:08PM (#36198410)
Loved everything about Alta Vista, including the logo, and the UI.

I miss 90s Internet in general. It wasn't the ugly battleground and desolation planet that the current net has become.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by fragmede on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:13PM (#36198469)
Remember Guestbooks? you'd visit a website, and volunteer your name and which country you were from and leave comments. And it wouldn't be a cesspool of spam and porn and XSS attacks? How quaint!
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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by lispy4 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:35PM (#36198861)
Oh gosh, yes! And reading the guestbook was always so fun. An elderly friend of mine passed away in 2018, and in doing a (google) search of him, I found guestbooks he'd signed 20 years ago.
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