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Re: Miniskirts and mainframes

From	lawrence@cluon.com
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Miniskirts and mainframes
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Date	2015-08-21 04:47 +0200
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Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:

> <lawrence@cluon.com> wrote:
>> "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
>>> Didn't DEC Western Research Lab run the Gatekeeper server that had a
>>> lot of archives on it???
>> 
>> Another interesting project that ran at DECWRL and got into most
>> webservers logs during the mid-90s was Altavista.digital.com
>> 
>> So popular that the holder of altavista.com had a link on their home
>> page redirecting users to the actual site they were looking for, and
>> eventually transferred the domain to Digital (I hope for a studio filled
>> with beautiful prizes, including some high-end Alpha hardware).
>
> I preferred Altavista to other search engines, and used it until it broke,
> long after everyone else went to Yahoo.

Yahoo?  When was "yahoo" where everyone else was?

I went to AV from Lycos, and when AV 'jumped the shark', I started using
this little upstart from Stanford called "Googel" -- or something like
that.

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                Re: Miniskirts and mainframes pechter@S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2015-08-18 14:45 +0000
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        Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-17 12:08 -0700
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            Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-18 14:41 -0700
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            Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-19 20:51 -0700
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                Re: Miniskirts and mainframes lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-21 04:47 +0200
                Re: Miniskirts and mainframes "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-21 15:29 -0500
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              Re: Miniskirts and mainframes "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:43 -0500
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