Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around todayen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down13
arrow-up1251arrow-down1external-linkTIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around todayen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareWolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·3 months agoAaaaand it was hugged to death Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
minus-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·3 months agoA day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
minus-squareBoozilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 months agoGoogle search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoCan we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
minus-squareDizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoPretty sure Ask Jeeves is still around, but from what I understand it’s basically useless.
Aaaaand it was hugged to death
Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
A day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
Google search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
Technology is cyclical
Can we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
The future is HotBot, baby!
Pretty sure Ask Jeeves is still around, but from what I understand it’s basically useless.