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  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday April 08 2015, @09:23PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @09:23PM (#167991)

    I think I saw Archie once but it was being demoed to me, not something I used. As for me... er... Lycos? Excite? Clinging desperately to webrings once you found something remotely related? I don't even remember for sure.

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Wednesday April 08 2015, @09:58PM

    by zocalo (302) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @09:58PM (#168004)
    It was probably Archie for me, but I was using Veronica as well so I might have that backward. I also recall that during the early days of the web, there was a ~1MB text file you could find (with Archie or Veronica!) and download that contained an index of all the known sites. I used that too.

    And yes, there was porn. Even then. :)
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:47AM (#168235)

      What do you mean with even then? After all, originally only adults used the internet, so there was absolutely no urge to "think of the children".

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Thursday April 09 2015, @11:37AM

    by bradley13 (3053) on Thursday April 09 2015, @11:37AM (#168277) Homepage Journal

    No clue. Lycos? Yahoo? Altavista? Something else? Back in the day (hey, get off my lawn!) they were all terrible, so I migrated to Metacrawler [wikipedia.org], which sent the query to a bunch of different search engines and blended the results. Then Google came along and put all the others to shame.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday April 22 2015, @02:35PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @02:35PM (#173989) Journal
    I don't remember which was the very first one, but I used Lycos, Infoseek and Yahoo for ages, before switching to AltaVista. I then started using Google in 2000 when someone at university introduced me to it, though I kept using AltaVista for backup because the search results were often better (but taking 30 seconds to load the search page on a 56Kb/s MODEM relegated it to occasional use). I switched to DuckDuckGo when Google decided that the up and down arrows should do different things in the Google search text field to every other text field in OS X, and stayed because it has a nicer UI and better privacy
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