Alta Vista! You traitors!

[Andem]

I was reminiscing about the old days of the Internet and was looking at my old search engine in 90s.. I noticed this, in the bottom right corner:

Netscape now: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212022704/http://www.altavista.com/

Netscape not now: http://web.archive.org/web/19990429093642/www.altavista.com/



Thanks, Alta Vista, for killing Netscape and for killing yourself by not buying Google's technology for dirt cheap when you had the chance

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[Haggis McBagpipe]

RE: Alta Vista! You trait

That is absolutely appalling!

Yes, I remember the good old days of Netscape, we none of us used Exploiter, it was just a thing to laugh about. The good old days, yes. The days when the Internet wasn't a crass commercial cash grab, but rather a place where information was offered freely by all. Looking something up on a search engine resulted in page after page of free information, not page after page of commercial endeavours looking for your dollar.

It'll never be like that again, either.

 

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