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On Saturday, 4 September 1999 08:00:00 UTC+1, gl1 wrote:


Mind The Doors!!!

Isn't it (in the film) Mind the Gap!

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On 2015\09\28 20:07, Offramp wrote:
On Saturday, 4 September 1999 08:00:00 UTC+1, gl1 wrote:


Mind The Doors!!!

Isn't it (in the film) Mind the Gap!

Never mind the 16 year gap between the question and answer.

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In article ,
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\09\28 20:07, Offramp wrote:
On Saturday, 4 September 1999 08:00:00 UTC+1, gl1 wrote:


Mind The Doors!!!

Isn't it (in the film) Mind the Gap!

Never mind the 16 year gap between the question and answer.

It took that long to decypher 'Minardor'.

Nick
--
"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
-- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996

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On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 8:13:13 PM UTC+1, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\09\28 20:07, Offramp wrote:
On Saturday, 4 September 1999 08:00:00 UTC+1, gl1 wrote:


Mind The Doors!!!

Isn't it (in the film) Mind the Gap!

Never mind the 16 year gap between the question and answer.

And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and Holborn.

Neill

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wrote:
On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 8:13:13 PM UTC+1, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\09\28 20:07, Offramp wrote:
On Saturday, 4 September 1999 08:00:00 UTC+1, gl1 wrote:


Mind The Doors!!!

Isn't it (in the film) Mind the Gap!

Never mind the 16 year gap between the question and answer.

And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it
back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and Holborn.

Did Netscape ever have a search engine? I don't recall one.

I think back then Yahoo, Excite, Ask (Jeeves) or MSN would have been the
most likely candidates. In those early days, I used a search aggravation
engine that farmed out queries to multiple engines and combined the
results, as no single engine had comprehensive coverage of the then tiny
Web. Google was just getting started but didn't stand out back then.

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On 2015\09\29 14:48, Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 8:13:13 PM UTC+1, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\09\28 20:07, Offramp wrote:
On Saturday, 4 September 1999 08:00:00 UTC+1, gl1 wrote:


Mind The Doors!!!

Isn't it (in the film) Mind the Gap!

Never mind the 16 year gap between the question and answer.

And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it
back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and Holborn.

Did Netscape ever have a search engine? I don't recall one.

I think back then Yahoo, Excite, Ask (Jeeves) or MSN would have been the
most likely candidates. In those early days, I used a search aggravation
engine that farmed out queries to multiple engines and combined the
results, as no single engine had comprehensive coverage of the then tiny
Web. Google was just getting started but didn't stand out back then.


That sounds like Metacrawler. I think Altavista was the single most
popular one.

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In message
-septem
ber.org, at 13:48:15 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner
remarked:
And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it
back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and Holborn.

Did Netscape ever have a search engine? I don't recall one.

I think back then Yahoo, Excite, Ask (Jeeves) or MSN would have been the
most likely candidates. In those early days, I used a search aggravation
engine

Perhaps it was very aggravating, but I expect they intended to be
aggregating.

that farmed out queries to multiple engines and combined the
results, as no single engine had comprehensive coverage of the then tiny
Web. Google was just getting started but didn't stand out back then.

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't have
a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998, didn't
really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing. Ask
Jeeves wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).
--
Roland Perry

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Roland Perry wrote:
In message -septem
ber.org, at 13:48:15 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner remarked:
And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it
back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and Holborn.

Did Netscape ever have a search engine? I don't recall one.

I think back then Yahoo, Excite, Ask (Jeeves) or MSN would have been the
most likely candidates. In those early days, I used a search aggravation
engine

Perhaps it was very aggravating, but I expect they intended to be aggregating.

Drat! The perils of an iPad that thinks it knows what you meant better
than you...


that farmed out queries to multiple engines and combined the
results, as no single engine had comprehensive coverage of the then tiny
Web. Google was just getting started but didn't stand out back then.

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't have
a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998, didn't
really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing. Ask Jeeves
wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.

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In message
-septem
ber.org, at 15:27:17 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner
remarked:

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't have
a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998, didn't
really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing. Ask Jeeves
wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.

Altavista which was rapidly overtaken by Google.
--
Roland Perry

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"Recliner" wrote

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.


I was using AltaVista (somewhat later some fool redirected all UK references
to AltaVista.com to AltaVista.co.uk which showed me a blank screen. I moved
to Google.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha
processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of
hard disk space, and received 13 million queries every day.[8] This made
AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part of the
World Wide Web.

The Usenet search and post was Deja
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News

--
Mike D

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"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
"Recliner" wrote

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.


I was using AltaVista (somewhat later some fool redirected all UK
references to AltaVista.com to AltaVista.co.uk which showed me a blank
screen. I moved to Google.).

Yes, AltaVista was one of the many search engines I remember using.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha
processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB
of hard disk space, and received 13 million queries every day.[8] This
made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part
of the World Wide Web.

The Usenet search and post was Deja
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News

Yup, I certainly remember Deja News.

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It was a dark and stormy night when Recliner
wrote in article 1088455404465233183.95365
...
Roland Perry wrote:
In message -
septem
ber.org, at 13:48:15 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner
remarked:
And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it
back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and
Holborn.

Did Netscape ever have a search engine? I don't recall one.

I think back then Yahoo, Excite, Ask (Jeeves) or MSN would have been the
most likely candidates. In those early days, I used a search aggravation
engine

Perhaps it was very aggravating, but I expect they intended to be aggregating.

Drat! The perils of an iPad that thinks it knows what you meant better
than you...


that farmed out queries to multiple engines and combined the
results, as no single engine had comprehensive coverage of the then tiny
Web. Google was just getting started but didn't stand out back then.

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't have
a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998, didn't
really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing. Ask Jeeves
wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.

I was using Hotbot, as I recall, before Google.

G.
--
Grebbsy McLaren

--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:50:45 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message
-septem
ber.org, at 15:27:17 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner
remarked:

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't have
a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998, didn't
really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing. Ask Jeeves
wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.

Altavista which was rapidly overtaken by Google.

I, too, was an Altavista user. I remember a not-particularly
computer-literate person using Google as a verb a very long time ago.
It was the first time I realised that Altavista had been overtaken.

The first search engine I remember was Yahoo, which I think was
mentioned in a Demon newsletter. I think the address was
akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

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In message , at 19:17:06 on
Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Beer O'Clock remarked:

The first search engine I remember was Yahoo, which I think was
mentioned in a Demon newsletter. I think the address was
akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

Although Yahoo wasn't a search engine, it was a curated list of sites
compiled by hand.
--
Roland Perry

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Roland Perry wrote on Tue, 29 Sep 2015 at 16:00:45:
In message
-septem
ber.org, at 13:48:15 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner
remarked:
And in those 16 years nobody bothered to Google, (or possibly Netscape it
back then)! According to Wikipedia, the film was shot at Aldwych and
Holborn.

Did Netscape ever have a search engine? I don't recall one.

I think back then Yahoo, Excite, Ask (Jeeves) or MSN would have been the
most likely candidates. In those early days, I used a search aggravation
engine

Perhaps it was very aggravating, but I expect they intended to be
aggregating.

that farmed out queries to multiple engines and combined the
results, as no single engine had comprehensive coverage of the then tiny
Web. Google was just getting started but didn't stand out back then.

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't
have a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998,
didn't really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing.
Ask Jeeves wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

Gopher and WAIS seem to be in decline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_a...rmation_server

http://gopher.quux.org:70/Software/Gopher/servers
--
Iain Archer

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"Beer O'Clock" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:50:45 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message
-septem
ber.org, at 15:27:17 on Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Recliner
remarked:

Yahoo was more of a collection of human-researched links and didn't
have
a search engine until 2002, MSN only started search in 1998, didn't
really settle down until 2005, and in 2009 was rebranded Bing. Ask
Jeeves
wasn't until 1997 (about the same date as Google).

Before Google, people used AltaVista (1994, which evolved to a
Usenet-only search) and Lycos (1994 again).

What would people have been using in 1999-2000? I have no recollection
of
which engine I was using back then, apart from the parallel aggregate
search engine whose name also escapes me.

Altavista which was rapidly overtaken by Google.

I, too, was an Altavista user. I remember a not-particularly
computer-literate person using Google as a verb a very long time ago.
It was the first time I realised that Altavista had been overtaken.

The first search engine I remember was Yahoo, which I think was
mentioned in a Demon newsletter. I think the address was
akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

I was using AltaVista at that time, I switched to Google on the
recommendation of a uni IT officer. This would have been at the start of my
2nd spell at UEA, so Sep-Oct 2000.

James

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In message , James Heaton
writes

I was using AltaVista at that time, I switched to Google on the
recommendation of a uni IT officer. This would have been at the start
of my 2nd spell at UEA, so Sep-Oct 2000.

James

Infoseek late 90s
I remember telling my daughters about search engines "it's not what you
seek it's how you seek it". It's much easier now but then if one just
typed in the item you wanted you didn't always get the results you were
looking for.

DejaNews was invaluable too. Was worried when Google bought it.
--
Bryan Morris
Public Key http://www.pgp.uk.demon.net - 0xCC6237E9