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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

... do you think MySpace came before search engines?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Replace Myspace with Geocities and it's broadly correct of my experience in 90s internet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There were a ton of search engines in the 90s around the same time Geocities was released. AskJeeves was probably the most popular, but there was Altavista, Lycos, Dogpile, Yahoo... Shit, Google came out in 97, which was only a few years after Geocities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

When I had my Geocities website, I used Webcrawler as my preferred search engine. Cute spider and spiderweb iso/logo. Then came Altavista (altavista.digital.com, it was at first) and I switched. It brought more and better results. Somehow I never liked Lycos. And Yahoo, the first years, was a categorised catalogue/guide, kinda curated, and you had to submit a site to be considered to be added. You had to choose under which category (and subcategory, quite often) it should be listed. Also, at first, it wasn't Yahoo.com, it was buried in some .edu (or .ac, I don't quite recall) URL.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Webrings ftw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yahoo Directory is the OG

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Was altavista really a search engine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lycos

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

AskJeeves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dogpile. Webcrawler. Gopher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I was always partial to hotbot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Technically yes, but there were also a ton more, including Google.