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It's funny to me; what halcyon days are people longing for? When was the Internet an organized, easy place to navigate?
by Zetice 4y ago
It's funny to me; what halcyon days are people longing for? When was the Internet an organized, easy place to navigate?
- medstrom 4y ago2000-2010 or so.
- zamnos 4y agoThere 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.
- cbm-vic-20 4y agoI miss AltaVista, too.
- Zetice 4y agoUh, Google Search was only as good as the as Internet was back then, and in 99 it was pretty bad…