Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Altavista

Author
Message
Oster200
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st Jan 2011
Location:
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 03:13
Link
Do any of you use that or remember that back in the 90's until Google took over?

What does Star Trek and toilet paper have in common?

Back to top
Profile PM
Aaron Miller
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Feb 2006
Playing: osu!
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 03:36
Link
I use https://duckduckgo.com/ and https://google.com/. What I remember of Altavista is that it sucked.

Cheers,
Aaron

Check out my website! - Blog
Twitter
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
MrValentine
AGK Backer
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Dec 2010
Playing: FFVII
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 04:12 Edited at: 17th Jul 2012 04:16
Link
Quote: "What I remember of Altavista is that it sucked."


So I take it you never used any translation services?

EDIT

Heck yeah I remember AltaVista, but why ask?

Back to top
Profile PM
Aaron Miller
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Feb 2006
Playing: osu!
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 04:17
Link
Only from Google, when I'm bored. Translation isn't something most people normally need to do. Searching is.

Cheers,
Aaron

Check out my website! - Blog
Twitter
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
MrValentine
AGK Backer
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Dec 2010
Playing: FFVII
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 04:23 Edited at: 17th Jul 2012 04:23
Link
well, AltaVista coined somthing called BabelFish, which is now owned by Yahoo *sigh*

EDIT

Typo in bold

Back to top
Profile PM
Ortu
DBPro Master
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st Nov 2007
Location: Austin, TX
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 04:54
Link
And they got babelfish fom hitchhickers guide

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
MrValentine
AGK Backer
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Dec 2010
Playing: FFVII
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 04:56
Link
Quote: "And they got babelfish fom hitchhickers guide"


ahahahahaa nice call

Back to top
Profile PM
Oster200
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st Jan 2011
Location:
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 05:38
Link
Quote: "Heck yeah I remember AltaVista, but why ask?"


i don't know i just remembered about it and the old times. wondered how many of you remembered it?

What does Star Trek and toilet paper have in common?

Back to top
Profile PM
nonZero
13
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jul 2011
Location: Dark Empire HQ, Otherworld, Silent Hill
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 12:24 Edited at: 17th Jul 2012 12:25
Link
I use Ixquick (doesn't log your IP no) for private searches (ya know, how to be a terrorist, how to run a meth lab etc) and Google mundane things (ya know like "I hate it when Hitler steals my Nutella", etc).

Dunno AltaVista coz I didn't have internet until between 2000 and 2004. Prior to that I could use internet at rich friends' houses and a couple of internet cafe-type place but it was really slow. My country was very behind with technology and only started catching up from about 2007 and has just sorta caught up now (we're about 6 months behind or so with most things but our internet still sux - 384k for most, 2Mb for some and up to 8Mb for the very priviledged. Doesn't go higher for home connections).

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
bitJericho
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 12:29
Link
I liked altavista. I used lycos before that.

darkBIT TGC Torrent Tracker / File Server - AGK Chat: #agk : irc.devhat.net
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
BatVink
Moderator
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 14:02
Link
AltaVista was run by DEC Systems. They eventually failed as the leading search engine because their algorithms were totally overrun by spam entries, they failed to adopt algorithms similar to PageRank that allowed keywords and links to be intelligently matched (e.g "Cameron" leading you to the Downing Street website rather than anyone named Cameron), and their advertising mopdel was too expensive once CPC arrived on the scene.

Read Inside The GooglePlex, it has allsorts of interesting insights into the serach engine market.

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Green Gandalf
VIP Member
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Playing: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 14:15
Link
BatVink

Since you seem to be online you might like to deal with this dodgy post from serablue:

dodgy post?
Back to top
Profile PM Email
BatVink
Moderator
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Apr 2003
Location: Gods own County, UK
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 15:01
Link
@GG, Thraxas got to him first

Back to top
Profile PM Email
xplosys
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Jan 2006
Playing: FPSC Multiplayer Games
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 15:17
Link
There's a name from the past. Back then I did some SEO and remember names like AltaVista, Excite, DogPile and Lycos. I does seem like there were a lot more search engines back then.

Brian.

!retupmoc eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

Back to top
Profile PM
bitJericho
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 15:20 Edited at: 17th Jul 2012 15:21
Link
Oh man I used excite for a time too! If I recall correctly they changed their site and it really sucked so I moved on to one of the other ones.

darkBIT TGC Torrent Tracker / File Server - AGK Chat: #agk : irc.devhat.net
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Indicium
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th May 2008
Location:
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 18:09
Link
Quote: " our internet still sux - 384k for most, 2Mb for some and up to 8Mb for the very priviledged. Doesn't go higher for home connections"


Sooo... You live in the UK?


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
Back to top
Profile PM
MrValentine
AGK Backer
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Dec 2010
Playing: FFVII
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 18:53
Link
Man Lycos brings back memories... This thread needs a flame caution with [MASSIVE NOSTALGIA WARNING] tag on the title XD

I think I remember Excite as well...

I am sure many of them got bought out... I mean ASK [JEEVES] is still lingering around...

Back to top
Profile PM
bitJericho
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 20:00
Link
Interestingly enough almost all of them are still around. Lycos actually looks pretty good, but yeah almost no features and a screen full of ads.

darkBIT TGC Torrent Tracker / File Server - AGK Chat: #agk : irc.devhat.net
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Phaelax
DBPro Master
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 20:23
Link
I used altavista's babel fish back in the day. My primary search engine was webcrawler.com, hotbot.com, dogpile.com, and mamma.com. And for warez there was astalavista. I used asked jeeves when I had a technical question.

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!" ~Tick
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
nonZero
13
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jul 2011
Location: Dark Empire HQ, Otherworld, Silent Hill
Posted: 17th Jul 2012 23:24
Link
Quote: "Sooo... You live in the UK?"

I wish *sighs*. I'm South African. On top of lousy speeds, we also get "caps" (a monthly limit on uploads/downloads) on our internet. They come in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB packages. The unlimited packages are expensive and exceedingly slow and the ISPs cut your speed if you start using too much bandwidth (not very "unlimited" when you can't squeeze more than 40GB a month). I'm currently on 384k uncapped (well, my relatives with whom I stay are). I used to be on 384k with 1GB cap. That's why I watch Youtube at 240p. It's fine, my eyes have a built-in filter to enhance low-quality images.... Actually now that I think about it, my productivity went down the minute I got uncapped internet... Oops!

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Quik
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 3rd Jul 2008
Location: Equestria!
Posted: 18th Jul 2012 00:21
Link
Quote: "Only from Google, when I'm bored. Translation isn't something most people normally need to do. Searching is."


I use that quite a lot - swedish -> english, English -> swedish.

usually just one worders



Whose eyes are those eyes?
Back to top
Profile PM
Oster200
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st Jan 2011
Location:
Posted: 18th Jul 2012 01:46
Link
wow i don't even remember excite... lycos website looks updated more modern but a lot of these are just really not in use anymore.

What does Star Trek and toilet paper have in common?

Back to top
Profile PM
RedneckRambo
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Oct 2006
Location: Worst state in USA... California
Posted: 18th Jul 2012 04:03 Edited at: 18th Jul 2012 04:04
Link
I used excite all the time. That was my main search engine. I tried Lycos but I just liked excite too much. I eventually fell to yahoo, right when they hit their biggest time period, and then fell to Google. Haven't left since then. Not sure why I really made any of the changes though... But Google ftw.

I>Every single one of you

Have a nice day
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Virtual Nomad
Moderator
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Dec 2005
Location: SF Bay Area, USA
Posted: 18th Jul 2012 04:39 Edited at: 18th Jul 2012 04:41
Link
my first* favorite:




*after surviving the initial wave of:



and



Virtual Nomad @ California, USA . DBPro V7.5
AMD Phenom™ X4 9750 Quad-Core @ 2.4 GHz . 8 GB PC2-6400 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3650 @ 512 MB . Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Phaelax
DBPro Master
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 18th Jul 2012 19:25
Link
I never really used either AOL or Netscape.

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!" ~Tick
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Virtual Nomad
Moderator
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Dec 2005
Location: SF Bay Area, USA
Posted: 21st Jul 2012 19:25 Edited at: 21st Jul 2012 19:26
Link
Quote: "I never really used either AOL or Netscape"

in ~'92 when i wanted to get internet, i kinda had to use one or the other.

AOL was (is?) an intrusive middle-man. netscape was less so.

then, comcast became available here and i never looked back (until this thread came out ).

Virtual Nomad @ California, USA . DBPro V7.5
AMD Phenom™ X4 9750 Quad-Core @ 2.4 GHz . 8 GB PC2-6400 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3650 @ 512 MB . Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
Back to top
Profile PM Website
bitJericho
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 22nd Jul 2012 01:33
Link
AOL and it's even eviler twin MSN's aol clone wasn't so bad when you figured out how to bypass the crap middleware browsers they tried to throw up on you.

darkBIT TGC Torrent Tracker / File Server - AGK Chat: #agk : irc.devhat.net
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Aaron Miller
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Feb 2006
Playing: osu!
Posted: 22nd Jul 2012 03:00
Link
Quote: "crap middleware browsers"

Oh god those browsers were horrible! I completely forgot about them until now.

Cheers,
Aaron

Check out my website! - Blog
Twitter
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Phaelax
DBPro Master
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 22nd Jul 2012 04:32
Link
Quote: "in ~'92 when i wanted to get internet, i kinda had to use one or the other."


I always managed to find free dial-up services back then. I never once paid for internet until I had broadband. And even then, I managed to get roadrunner for free for a short time. (though the roadrunner method i used back then wouldn't work today)

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!" ~Tick
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Virtual Nomad
Moderator
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 14th Dec 2005
Location: SF Bay Area, USA
Posted: 22nd Jul 2012 05:37
Link
Quote: "I always managed to find free dial-up services back then"


it was about speed back then (still is) and you got what you paid for. i don't remember anything "free" that was worth a nickel

i was playing legends of future past at the time and there were 2 options: 1) via the internet, @ $1.80/hr. i opted for 2) @ $3.60/hr direct dial connection because the (completely text-based) game was "unbearable" to play over the internet

Virtual Nomad @ California, USA . DBPro V7.5
AMD Phenom™ X4 9750 Quad-Core @ 2.4 GHz . 8 GB PC2-6400 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3650 @ 512 MB . Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2025-05-18 23:24:39
Your offset time is: 2025-05-18 23:24:39