First Thing You Ever Searched on the Internet

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DisorientingSneeze said:
Lycos and AskJeeves come to mind.
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I worked next to the guy who created Lycos. It was all the rage until AltaVista superceded it. Then AltaVista was surpassed by Google.

I do miss web directories (primarily Yahoo’s), which were useful when I knew what I was looking for but just didn’t know where it was. Search engines were good for when I didn’t even know what I was looking for but could toss a couple of keywords at the web.
 
Maybe I searched “internet” as I didn’t know what internet was. 😆
 
A long time ago I was looking up something about Anne of Green Gables and wound up on a site where the content was fine, but the ads were for porn sites.
 
Sarcelle said:
Anyone remember Netscape?
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I was thinking about it, as I wrote my other post.

I used to love it. Then we had Internet Explorer. I used to love using Netscape and I thought that it was really great at the time. 🙂
 
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It would have been something for work, we installed a web browser in 1990 and we actually had a service where people would come pay us to search things on the internet for them.
 
Isn’t Firefox called that specifically because it rose from the ash heap of Netscape, or some mozilla thing that has some netscape in it? So perhaps a tiny piece of it still lives in the bowels of a modern browser?
 
Pug said:
Isn’t Firefox called that specifically because it rose from the ash heap of Netscape, or some mozilla thing that has some netscape in it? So perhaps a tiny piece of it still lives in the bowels of a modern browser?
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I think you’re right about that regarding Firefox and Netscape. 🙂

Personally, I think that Netscape was just fine as it was! 😉

Firefox kind of drives me nuts with its constant updates and user setting changes. I tend to not use it and prefer to use Chrome on the laptop that I use when I’m not using my Chromebook. 🙂
 
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