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We should have a 20 year ( has it been that long? ) reunion. Get all the cast together. Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, AskJeeves, etc. Google will probably be too co
by dntbnmpls 7y ago
We should have a 20 year ( has it been that long? ) reunion. Get all the cast together. Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, AskJeeves, etc. Google will probably be too cool to attend.
- awl130 7y agoYou're not going to invite Yahoo? :(
- Scoundreller 7y agoOr HotBot? Infoseek?
- cosmodisk 7y agoYahoo is that cool kid from the 5th grade,who ended up being on drugs and with a dead end job.Nope, not invited.
- ianai 7y agoThat is EXACTLY what yahoo turned into!
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- whatsmyusername 7y agoDogpile!
- sanatgersappa 7y agoSounds like a dogpile ;-)
- kelp 7y agoI worked at Go2Net when they acquired Dogpile. I was directly involved in migrating it’s systems to our data centers after the acquisition closed. I don’t really remember the tech stack, but it was something like 10-15 web servers, probably pentium II or III. One detail I do remember is the original setup had an Apache log rotation script that would try several times to restart Apache and if it didn’t succeed, it would reboot the server. This ran nightly... Not sure what bug or issue they were working around. But I thought it was quite an aggressive solution!
- jaeh 7y ago"let's just leave this ugly hack here for tonight and get some logs about the restarts, then delete it tomorrow..." "oh, we forgot the print. lets retry tonight." "darn, did not happen. lets leave this part in our infra for now until we trigger the edgecase again." 5 weeks (or days...) later: "damn, why did we do that again? better not touch it" i love it when i find myself cargo culting code like that and finally have the time (and courage) to remove it :)
- toast0 7y agoApache still doesn't know how to reopen log files when they're rotated :(
- pushpop 7y agoThat’s news to me. I’ve been managing Apache hosts for well over a decade and never had an issue. Used apache 1.3, 2.2 and 2.4. What’s your log rotation code look like?
- toast0 7y agoYou have to do a graceful restart after rotation, according to the docs, which then leads to scripts that try a couple times and then reboot. (It's been a while, but I did have an install where graceful restart would work once, but consistently fail on the second rotation). https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/logs.html#rotation https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/logs.html#rotation
- codeontheedge 7y agoOr Bing? :(
- reaperducer 7y agoWasn't there a monkey-themed one, too? I remember it being garish purple and lime green.
- chx 7y agoNorthern Light.
- natch 7y agoInktomi, let's do this!
- natch 7y agoAnd let's not forget WAIS!
- TuringNYC 7y agoWatching the final season of Halt and Catch Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series... felt like a 1990s search engine reunion :-) Highly recommended for anyone with 90s (or 80s) tech nostalgia
- vidarh 7y agoHalt and Catch Fire is criminally underappreciated. It did amazingly well at capturing the quirkier side of the home computer revolution first and foremost, but also the early years of the growth of the net, by not talking about the big, famous survivors.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoIt was a great show! I wasn't in tech in the 80s of seasons 1 and 2, but seasons 3 and 4 felt like I was reliving the past.
- nashashmi 7y agoI learned about competing nets for the first time through that show. And then I learned what a vision the world wide web was. Amazingly one of the characters said he knows how horrible content becomes when it is open to just anyone. Well we got angelfire and tripod today to do just that.
- dehrmann 7y agoHotbot.
- petepete 7y agoAt the time I used mamma.com - such a good and underappreciated search engine. Eventually dwindled and was bought by Copernic.