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Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by exhaze on Friday June 28, 2013 @07:19PM (#5960840)
I'll miss AltaVista. I have a fond memory of using it when I was 10 or 11. I used it to search for "Mortal Kombat 2 combo moves", which led me to GameFAQs. It actually took a lot of trouble at the time, as I had only moved to the U.S. a year prior and had trouble formulating the correct phrase before in order to get that information. I was quite proud of myself.

Amusingly, if you search for that phrase on Google today, GameFAQs doesn't even show up until the second page.

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