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I miss AltaVista so much... It was no frills and only based on page content.
by winternett 3y ago
I miss AltaVista so much... It was no frills and only based on page content.
- BryantD 3y agoThose of us who worked there thank you!
- mech422 3y agoI loved me the 'near' keyword - thanks!
- masukomi 3y agoI both appreciated Alta Vista, and appreciated its office space in Littleton ( i think ) when i worked in it after its passing. ;)
- lispy4 3y agoLoved everything about Alta Vista, including the logo, and the UI. I miss 90s Internet in general. It wasn't the ugly battleground and desolation planet that the current net has become.
- fragmede 3y agoRemember Guestbooks? you'd visit a website, and volunteer your name and which country you were from and leave comments. And it wouldn't be a cesspool of spam and porn and XSS attacks? How quaint!
- lispy4 3y agoOh gosh, yes! And reading the guestbook was always so fun. An elderly friend of mine passed away in 2018, and in doing a (google) search of him, I found guestbooks he'd signed 20 years ago.
- zorked 3y agoYou would look for a thing and the first five pages were random mailing list discussion archives discussing how the thing was 5 years before... Altavista was impressive, but there is a reason why it went away.