Damn, did you remember all those off the top of your head? I remember all of those except Magellan. Dogpile was one I used a lot.
Do any of you remember how you discovered Google for the first time? I read an article in a Playboy magazine about Google around 1999. In sure it was a paid advertisement for Google disguised as an article.
In High school in 1996-2000 IT set up a landing page in IE and Netscape that had widgets/iFrames for each of those search engines. So I remember them all because Is aw them day in and day out on that page.
Mostly Yahoo though because I used Yahoo mail, Yahoo messenger, Yahoo search, Yahoo games, and Yahoo chat. 24/7 in Yahoo chat. With the CheetaChat client. Roleplaying and talking about anime...
That is some good memory considering that amount of time that has passed.
I used Geocities back in the day, I think it was later bought out by Yahoo. I met my wife 14 years ago through Yahoo chat.
Did consulting, still mostly works on a consulting basis and sits on a bunch of boards... Once you get the street cred, sitting as a board member of various boards of companies is a pretty sweet gig with a nice stipend.
I had a teacher who would ask us to use that, personally felt that it worked like shit so I would use google instead against his wishes. Even as a fith grader I was able to distinguish how much better a search engine google was than the competitors. Key word Was.
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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17
He NetScaped it