[at-l] Memory lane...

[thornel at attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

Felix wonders about the first search engine.

In the 80's only gopher, FTP and such were available as Internet access 
beyond email. I believe the concept of WWW began around 92-93 with the 
folks who eventually wrote Netscape and sold out to AOL. If I recall 
correctly, the earliest search engine I recall was WWW.AltaVista.Com around 
'95. This led to others and quite a speculative market. Every portal 
candidate has some sort of search engine (Excite, Yahoo, Google and 
others). There are even search engines for more specific topics, like 
Westlaw, Medline and such.

OrangeBug


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