Figured a release valve was needed for the PVP thread.
I don't recall what I used before AltaVista. I do recall reading about google as a research project, but not using it until a few years into its life when I was using both and found that it was producing results as good as altavista. Eventually I switched to google after I found that the results were so much better that there was no longer any point in going there.
Never did enjoy or use yahoo. At the time they were trying to get people to categorize and curate the internet, and while a noble goal, ultimately it simply didn't scale. Internet content was being created at a rate faster than curators could manage it.
I first used the internet via a dial in to a library, which had lynx that you could use remotely. Prior to that I was accessing a few BBS's, and accessing fidonet and compuserve via a university dialup.
Of course, before BBS's we had computer magazines and "shareware" discs. Lots and lots of time wasted on old DOS games.
First computer was a timex sinclair zx-81, with a cassette tape interface so you could type in a loooong program from the computer magazine, then save it to tape so you didn't have to type it in again. Fiddling with the tape player to get the correct volume, etc was an exercise in frustration, but it was on this system that I wrote my first program, which was a text rocket flying up from the bottom of the screen and off the screen.
I don't recall what I used before AltaVista. I do recall reading about google as a research project, but not using it until a few years into its life when I was using both and found that it was producing results as good as altavista. Eventually I switched to google after I found that the results were so much better that there was no longer any point in going there.
Never did enjoy or use yahoo. At the time they were trying to get people to categorize and curate the internet, and while a noble goal, ultimately it simply didn't scale. Internet content was being created at a rate faster than curators could manage it.
I first used the internet via a dial in to a library, which had lynx that you could use remotely. Prior to that I was accessing a few BBS's, and accessing fidonet and compuserve via a university dialup.
Of course, before BBS's we had computer magazines and "shareware" discs. Lots and lots of time wasted on old DOS games.
First computer was a timex sinclair zx-81, with a cassette tape interface so you could type in a loooong program from the computer magazine, then save it to tape so you didn't have to type it in again. Fiddling with the tape player to get the correct volume, etc was an exercise in frustration, but it was on this system that I wrote my first program, which was a text rocket flying up from the bottom of the screen and off the screen.
