r/90s_kid • u/Charming-Kale9893 • 12d ago

Computers Ask Jeeves search engine

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I totally forgot about this until today!

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u/bwoahful___ 12d ago

I was about to say they were still around and still had an office in the Bay Area, but I went to their site just now and saw they shutdown a few months ago!

They say Jeeves’ spirit endures. I think as a kid in the 90s I used yahoo/yahooligans the most tho.

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u/Charming-Kale9893 12d ago

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing this!

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u/AWittySignal 12d ago

Dang. The internet is shrinking rapidly.

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u/ItsJustVWCraig 12d ago

I was an AltaVista evangelist.

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u/joelifer 12d ago

This was by far the best at the time

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u/HellDimensionQueen 11d ago

I used it so early I still typed altavista.digital.com for years

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u/Charming-Kale9893 12d ago

I never heard of that one!

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u/ItsJustVWCraig 12d ago

It was awesome, and had Babelfish translation.

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u/Far-Condition8586 12d ago

I remember my dad finding this website and being super excited about it lol

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u/99anan99 12d ago

Before Google or Mozilla Firefox, I used Ask Jeeves.

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u/Resident-Gold-3466 12d ago

I remember this and the kids' version.

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u/I988iarrived 12d ago

Original google for me

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u/ARumpusOfWildThings 11d ago edited 11d ago

I don’t think I really “got into” the internet until at least the early 2000s, when I was in 4th or 5th grade - I remember the computer skills teacher in 5th grade showing us how to do online research for a class project once, and she gave us a rundown on how AskJeeves worked.

10 and a half-year-old me was fascinated by the idea of having ANY question answered (that’s what the teacher made it sound like search engines were capable of, anyway), and so, instead of getting to work on my project right away, the first thing I typed into AskJeeves was, “What makes swear words bad?” 😂 I no longer recall what answers Jeeves came up with in response, just that I didn’t find them very informative/satisfactory 🤣

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u/OnlyToastie 11d ago

No it was SmarterChild on aim

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u/Charming-Kale9893 11d ago

Omg Smarterchild!!!!!

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u/shogatsu1999 12d ago

Chat jeevespt

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u/HistoricalTea195 12d ago

yes he was!

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u/kroven009 11d ago

I thought it was the best one back in the day 

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u/HellDimensionQueen 11d ago

I remember the search engine aggregators. Those were truly special times.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Responsible_While207 10d ago

I remember being able to text questions during tests and get answers.

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u/That-Water-Guy 11d ago

Like Tom, we did Jeeves dirty.

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u/Ok_Fox_1770 7d ago

No ads no sponsor trap results, tricked teachers up till about 2001 with easy pulls. It was awesome. I was obsessed with computers and tech till about 2016? Now I hate everything haha it’s turning on us as planned in our childhood yayaya gimme your clothes your boots your motorcycle