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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by e_armadillo on Wednesday April 08 2015, @09:03PM

    by e_armadillo (3695) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @09:03PM (#167985)

    I used it all the time

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  • (Score: 1) by skater on Friday April 10 2015, @02:28PM

    by skater (4342) on Friday April 10 2015, @02:28PM (#168747) Journal

    Thanks! I was trying to remember if that was the name of it, until I saw your post. Same here. I used altavista for a while after webcrawler.

    Never really used Yahoo's search. In the early days, Yahoo was careful to explain that they were a directory, not a search engine.

  • (Score: 2) by zugedneb on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:39AM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:39AM (#177012)

    When I began my studies, we had some Dec workstations, with Mosaic browser...
    I think WebCrawler was the default(?) on those, but I may be mistaken...
    Altavista and Yahoo I saw first when the Dec:s were upgraded to Sun workstations running Netscape...
    Memory a bit shady, it was 20 years ago...

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