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© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Yahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista
By BARBARA ORTUTAY NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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borscht
What happened to Netscape?
wanderlust
A relic from the dial-up modem era - and one of the earliest victims of both the IPO bubble collapse and the M&A craze, as Compaq and later Yahoo took it over. It tried to do everything, and ended up doing nothing.
timtak
Alta-Vista used to allow one to search for punctuation (such as @) which I found very useful.
ebisen
I should have accessed it one more time :(. Was a heavy user rougly 12 years ago, when Google were still wearing diapers.
BBoppie
Ahhh, the good old days! If you type in altavista.com guess what you get?
Carcharodon
In a nutshell: became Mozilla, became Firefox.