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I can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Both of those are alive and well. Since at least the early 1990s, there have been free search engines. eg: Archie, Info
by imoverclocked 4y ago
I can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Both of those are alive and well. Since at least the early 1990s, there have been free search engines. eg: Archie, Infoseek, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, etc…
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- kube-system 4y agoI’m serious. Just saying: paid options like LexisNexis (and a couple others) offered online information search services that date back to the 70s. The 90s was the advent of free World Wide Web search. It wasn’t the advent of online search engines.
- imoverclocked 4y agoI mean, card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system go back a century before that. Public libraries go back much further in different forms. Just because you can pay for information/search, doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to get it for free. In the context of this thread, these all feel like straw man arguments.
- kube-system 4y agoI wouldn't call a card catalog a search engine.
- andsoitis 4y agoWhat point are you trying to make?