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  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday April 08 2015, @06:42PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @06:42PM (#167938) Homepage Journal

    When I was first introduced to the internet, I think I may have been shown yahoo as the first engine. I do remember being taught by my father that it is likely that if you add ".com" to the end of a word, the page may exist, for example ibm.com. While I never had a jarring experience, looking back I realize how horrible advice it was. I think I was 7ish so this would be around 93.

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  • (Score: 2) by SrLnclt on Wednesday April 08 2015, @08:06PM

    by SrLnclt (1473) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @08:06PM (#167971)

    Good thing WhiteHouse.com wasn't yet being used as an adult website yet if you wanted to learn more about the new US President Clinton back in 1993.

    I never realized the irony of that site gaining notoriety in the late 90's around the same time Bill and Monica were having a little too much fun in the oval office.

    • (Score: 2) by mendax on Friday April 10 2015, @06:25AM

      by mendax (2840) on Friday April 10 2015, @06:25AM (#168651)

      I never realized the irony of that site gaining notoriety in the late 90's around the same time Bill and Monica were having a little too much fun in the oval office.

      Oval office? I thought it was the Oral Orifice!

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday April 14 2015, @09:17PM

        by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Tuesday April 14 2015, @09:17PM (#170551) Journal

        Evil Orifice.

        'Course there's plenny wimmins gonna vote "Hillary" because they'd all Monica in a minute if opportunitied.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday April 11 2015, @05:54AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Saturday April 11 2015, @05:54AM (#168903)

    First search engine I used was a card file and the Dewey Decimal System.

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    • (Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:27AM

      by mendax (2840) on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:27AM (#168909)

      Got you beat there. My first search engine was on clay tablets.

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 16 2015, @02:08AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 16 2015, @02:08AM (#171308) Journal

      Ditto here. Ya know - I never did really question who or what Dewey was. I just entered it into Google. Some old coot who dreamed up a method of categorizing the books in a library. Who'da thunk it? I just learned the system, I didn't worry about buying the old guy a birthday card or anything.