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


Mind The Doors!!!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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