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I miss being able to search and find information. Now you search and find products.
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a primate posted:I used to binge (which wasn’t a word then) all kinds of bootlegged BBC documentaries using Google Video Unless you're 170 years old it was a word. Much like DUNCE! I wish ask jeeves was as smart as the real (fictional) jeeves. I'd have had so many difficult situations resolved with some light comedy thrown in.
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Oct 25, 2021 10:25
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All pre-Netflix binge drinkers have been erased from history.
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Oct 25, 2021 11:45
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one of those "i'm like a chocoholic but for booze" situations
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Oct 25, 2021 12:03
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I just tried do a search on youtube and when the hell did the results page get so dumb?
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Oct 25, 2021 12:09
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Did anyone else use WebFerret? Such a good way to find pirated poo poo.
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Oct 25, 2021 12:25
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Alta la vista... baby  
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Oct 25, 2021 12:52
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Remember when Microsoft was literally paying people to use live.com as their search engine? I think I ended up making like $350 off of them lmfao. And they ended up dropping the name anyway!
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Oct 25, 2021 14:29
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Remember when Microsoft was literally paying people to use live.com as their search engine? I think I ended up making like $350 off of them lmfao. And they ended up dropping the name anyway! I got to choose a prize from them for using their anagram thingy enough. I picked a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Joke was on me
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Oct 25, 2021 16:21
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Gutcruncher posted:I got to choose a prize from them for using their anagram thingy enough. I picked a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate I think that was the points system. The thing I'm talking about was let's say you were going to buy a computer chair. You'd go to live.com, search for the computer chair, and the site you'd be buying it from anyway would show up in the Live search results with this little coin next to it, indicating Microsoft would give you money back for buying it through that link. I remember often times I got back as much as 30% for doing that. It was insane. I still can't believe they spent all that money only to drop the name anyway.
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Oct 25, 2021 16:24
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Weka posted:Unless you're 170 years old it was a word. Much like DUNCE! Sorry, I meant not a word commonly used to describe watching lots of media. Of course it was a word you pedant :p
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Oct 25, 2021 17:09
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Was it hotbot.com/text or hotbot.com/fast that gave you the completely stripped down text-only version?
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Oct 25, 2021 17:13
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Gutcruncher posted:I got to choose a prize from them for using their anagram thingy enough. I picked a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate I did some Microsoft retailer employee thing one summer (I did not have a job) in highschool, which I am pretty sure I found on this message board. You took quizzes or something and could trade points for Microsoft software. I got like three retail boxes of Microsoft Office and ebayed them for like $400 each. It was awesome. Bum the Sad fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Oct 25, 2021 17:22
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0day ftpz
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Oct 25, 2021 17:30
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snap.com
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Oct 25, 2021 17:40
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oth.net I remember I used to have to upload poo poo before I could download so I'd just upload a bunch of Jerky Boys or something that I had like 7 CDs of just so I could get a sweet Gravediggaz instrumental that was literally nowhere else on the internet.
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Oct 25, 2021 17:44
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Computer viking posted:Was it hotbot.com/text or hotbot.com/fast that gave you the completely stripped down text-only version? I don't remember but I DO remember Hotbot hosted homepages, geocities style, for a while and i had one. You could take their automatic banner-adding code and gently caress it up and your page would be ad-free.
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Oct 25, 2021 20:38
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:oth.net Gravediggaz owns also this made me think of demonoid.net That still around?
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Oct 25, 2021 20:39
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Bronze Fonz posted:IIRC Alta Vista was the first to have a video search, before YouTube this was a god send. You could have it only return MP3 results too, which was great when I was in college and they blocked all P2P stuff. Thank you Foo Fighters for jamming my way unto academic probation.
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Oct 25, 2021 21:54
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I recently bought diablo 2 for my ps4 and it reminded me of that brief era of hope that technology was the future and also how terrible video games were
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Oct 25, 2021 21:56
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Videos on my internet? We had screencaps in binaries groups on newsgroups and liked it. Download RealPlayer, old man. Get with the times.
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Oct 25, 2021 21:59
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verbal enema posted:Gravediggaz owns also this made me think of demonoid.net Yep!
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Oct 25, 2021 22:10
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a primate posted:Sorry, I meant not a word commonly used to describe watching lots of media. Of course it was a word you pedant :p You think that's pedantry huh bub? Well I'll have you know that the first recorded usage in this context is from usenet in 1996. More like "a secundmate" at best.
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Oct 25, 2021 23:17
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Altavista was superior for almost everything, and then my boss introduced me to Google because it had indexed the MS Support forums and that was that. Bad Purchase posted:Altavista was great, way better than Lycos, Jeeves, and Yahoo at the time. My friend wrote a bit of software that let him shotgun modems and he had this set up for a bit. 4 copper house lines, 4 modems, running 'free' on netzero. it sorta/kinda worked for bandwidth.
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Oct 25, 2021 23:25
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I used AltaVista occasionally but preferred InfoSeek, only because I knew exactly how to formulate the search terms to get me what I wanted. I was introduced to Google in 1999 in my high school A+ and Net+ certification class, and like has already been said, it's chief benefit was how quickly the minimalist pages loaded on dial-up. Ironic given that they're now the face of bloat. But then Google is all-around awful these days. None of the ways to search verbatim actually search verbatim anymore and boolean operators only half-work. It wants you to enter natural speech, which it also ignores and serves up what it thinks you meant to say, and by that, I mean sponsored content.
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Oct 25, 2021 23:57
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dustin.h posted:None of the ways to search verbatim actually search verbatim anymore lol yeah what the gently caress is up with that? When I was in college from 2006-1012, I used to always google exact phrases from my textbooks so I would find either the textbook or the tests. I'd always get a result. I've tried endlessly for the last 2 or so years and it doesn't work any more. Wtf happened? Putting quotes around the phrases don't work either.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:01
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I used to use AltaVista and didn't like google because it had a stupid name. Now I use google. It still has a stupid name. But now when someone tells you to search for something they just say "google it". Like crock pot or kleenex.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:03
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Shemp the Stooge posted:I miss being able to search and find information. Now you search and find products.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:05
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I used to use AltaVista and didn't like google because it had a stupid name. Now I use google. It still has a stupid name. But now when someone tells you to search for something they just say "google it". Like crock pot or kleenex. What are you talking about, everybody says "altavista it" or "hotbot it". Nerds say "check metacrawler", normies sometimes "use lycos, they have that cute dog"
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Oct 26, 2021 00:13
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I say "Encarta it".
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Oct 26, 2021 00:15
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Farta Jizzta
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Oct 26, 2021 00:16
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Fame Douglas posted:Download RealPlayer, old man. Get with the times.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:21
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I used to have an ISDN connection. No buffering here.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:22
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AltaVista taught me that when you put a minis sign in front of a search term, it will exclude pages that have that word. It was such a good feature that Google copied it too.
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Oct 26, 2021 00:56
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I say "Encarta it". There was an Encarta encyclopedia CD or a series of them that came with our first PC. A Packard Bell 486. I used to just search through it because CDs were new and neat. Also it came with MegaRace.
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Oct 26, 2021 02:13
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:lol yeah what the gently caress is up with that? Anything useful and potentially profitable in the software world is always, ALWAYS inevitably buttfucked by poo poo licking business analyst weasels
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Oct 26, 2021 02:24
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Pennywise the Frown posted:There was an Encarta encyclopedia CD or a series of them that came with our first PC. A Packard Bell 486. I used to just search through it because CDs were new and neat. Also it came with MegaRace. Encarta 94 on our AST 486. It had videos. That you could watch on your PC. Also the quiz labyrinth game. 
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Oct 26, 2021 02:28
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I remember coming up with the best search phrase that would give you the results you were after was something of a black art. Now it's poo poo no matter what.
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Oct 26, 2021 14:09
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Remember when Microsoft was literally paying people to use live.com as their search engine? I think I ended up making like $350 off of them lmfao. And they ended up dropping the name anyway! They should start paying people to use Bing. Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:When I was in college from 2006-1012, I used to always google exact phrases from my textbooks so I would find either the textbook or the tests. I'd always get a result. Falling into a rift in the space-time continuum must have hosed with your grades regardless. edit: Computer viking posted:Encarta 94 on our AST 486. It had videos. That you could watch on your PC. Also the quiz labyrinth game. Literally the only thing I remember about Encarta was the proverb "Tko rano rani, dvije sreće grabi" (the one who rises early, grabs double the happiness). I don't know why I remember it. Encarta '97 was the one that had a bunch of languages with basic phrases in them along with local proverbs, so if you want a trip down memory lane... 
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Oct 26, 2021 15:06
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The worst thing to "google" is anything related to addiction or mental health. You get a samsha splash at top (nice) and then one trillion ads for lovely rehabs posing as results.
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