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Internet Artifacts

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681 points mikerg87 | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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lossolo ◴[15 May 25 14:55 UTC] No.43995733[source]▶
No mention of AltaVista?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista

PS. Astalavista was also fun :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astalavista.box.sk

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1. vt240 ◴[15 May 25 19:49 UTC] No.43998625[source]▶
Yeah, I agree that is pretty glaring omission. To myself at least, Altavista was a huge part of that small slice of time, where it seemed instantly, the whole world finally got online with dial-up PPP, opposed to earlier when we might have been accessing the internet through gateways at a BBS, or dialup shell access from the local library or ISP.

I'm sure things seemed quite different if you were on a college campus at the time.