Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services

Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by sdfjkl on Friday June 28, 2013 @08:54PM (#5961103)

Rest in peace, AltaVista. I have fond memories of you and your babelfish. Although your name always sounded vaguely profane in my native language.

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Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by psgbg on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:56PM (#5961362)

RIP Altavista and babelfish. One of them showed me a wider world, the other was the key to open it.

Long before google did become in that huge titan.

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Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by gcb0 on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:44AM (#5961656)

Hehe. Now you have to elaborate on the naming...

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Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services by mtdewcmu on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:04AM (#5961685)

The search results were not great, but the times were great.

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