AltaVista Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

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AltaVista Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by hobie16 » Tue Jul 09, 2013 5:45 pm

DEc 15, 1995 - July 8, 2013

What started out as a lab exercise at DEC turned into the best search engine for it's time. Properly supported it could have been Google before Google came into being. AltaVista had many owners who never spent the money to keep it up to date. The final owner, Yahoo!, sent it to it's grave.

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Re: AltaVista Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by Zazu » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:44 pm

hobie16 wrote:DEc 15, 1995 - July 8, 2013

What started out as a lab exercise at DEC turned into the best search engine for it's time....
:thumbsup:
... Yahoo!, sent it to it's grave.
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