This was actually my father's but I can't find a worthwhile screenshot of AOL Netfind.
>>108744695Alta Vista was the undisputed king before Google. The problem was DEC never figured out how to make money with it, so it remained a cost center that they operated as cheaply as they could get away with. Then google came around, and suddenly they couldn't get away with it anymore.
>>108744695I am a millenial and I remember Google being my search engine like 20 years ago lol.
Altavista was good. Northernlight was one I used a lot too.
yea i think i used altavista the most. i remember using a couple others for some uses but don't recall their names off the top of my head>>108744735>I am a millenial and I remember Google being my search engine like 20 years ago lol.so am i and yes i think i was using google by 2006, op is talking about before then
>>108744695I got the internet in 2001 at first I used Netscape, my pirating software was WinMX and my search engine was AltaVisa or Yahoo depending on use case. I actually switched engines around quite a lot. There wasn't a default one. Google was one of them too but much less used. I honestly remmeber Yahoo as the tech king back in these days. I had Yahoo mail, Messanger, Geocities but that didn't last too long.Yahoo Messenger was my preferred chat but I did use MSN and ICQ but Yahoo had offline messages and that was very important in the 56k days because you could send them when someone was offline. No need to mail people. Then in 2002 you heard rumours of Netscape failing and Mozzila coming to make a new brower. Firebird I think it was called. I stuck with Netscape. Switched to Firefox when it became that in 0.9 also switched to MSN once they also got offline messages. But that was alreaedy like 2003 or 2004. I also remember begging around on forums for a gmail invite you got 1 GB of space back in 2004 that was crazy. That was like more then one CD and 1/4 of a DVD. Shit my entire PC back then had 20 GB before I upgraded to a 80GB HDD. To this day people ask me how did you get name.surname@gmail.com and I'm like well I was there in 2004 when they were handing out beta invites. The good old days.
My first 5 years on the internet were as a child so AOL.I didn’t try any other ISP until I moved out on my own and got a Dreamcast and needed something to work with Sega net. So I switched to EarthLink and learned that there is an entire better internet outside of AOL’s walled garden. Switching to Broadband did this to most normies later when every one dropped AOL except for the most absolutely retarded normgroid boomers who.but for me it was sometimes between 9/9/9999 and when I started playing my Dreamcast on dial up.
>>108744695HotBot>>1087447352006 is way into the Google era, zillennial.
>>108744695Your picrel, although i mostly discovered new sites sharing them through my friends, jumping from one to another (a lot of sites used to advertise others) and through IT/Gaming magazines. Fucking missing that time, everything was novel and fun.
>>108744695I'm old but not that old. Even in 2002 when I was a small kid I remember AOL "Enhanced by Google" Google was my starting point.
>>108745063>zillennial.No such thing.
I liked excite. Remember it got bought/integrated into @home, which was supposed to be a fiber ISP in like 1999, and never really deliveredI still have an @home email somewhere. But I can't remember if it was smtp or x.400
>>108744695Started with Ask Jeeves in 97-98, a little Yahoo after that I think, settled on Alta Vista around 2000, then somewhere around 2004-2005 was pretty well settled on Google.
Lycos, without question.
>>108744695There were no search engines before Google. There were only directories. Websites had to be added to the search engine database, there were no crawlers.
>>108744695First started browsing the web in 1995. Infoseek was my go-to until they went bust (which was around 1997?). I used Ask.com for a bit, then I used a search aggregator a friend told me about (I think it was called metasearch?).
AltaVista for me too. I tried all others, it was the undisputed best.Yahoo was good if you wanted more of a directory and not a pure search engine though.Anyone else ever used Astalavista? It was pretty good for finding pirate content and cracks. I still remember the url: astalavista.box.skI also used a couple of search engines specific to my country that sometimes were better than AltaVista and Yahoo for regional content.
I used Copernic
Excite!
Yahoo.I honestly didn't know altavista existed until after its heyday. I did know about ask jeeves and would sometimes use it if I couldn't find something via yahoo.Google being bloat free and me being on dial up until 2006, I adopted it pretty quickly.
Webcrawler then yahoo. Stuck with yahoo for a long time even after Google was the main event.
Yahoo was cool because it had organized groups, it was more like a phonebook type of experience. At least for a while at the beginning, but it was never going to last as the internet ballooned in size and scammers and SEO stuff would eventually become standard.
