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-square12fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: til@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-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-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.world
minus-squareWolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 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-squareBoozilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoGoogle search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoCan we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
minus-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoA day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
Aaaaand it was hugged to death
Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
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!
A day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.