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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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Yahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista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©2021 GPlusMedia Inc.
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zichi
A web wooly mammoth
ebisen
I should have accessed it one more time :(. Was a heavy user rougly 12 years ago, when Google were still wearing diapers.
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.
BBoppie
Ahhh, the good old days! If you type in altavista.com guess what you get?
Carcharodon
In a nutshell: became Mozilla, became Firefox.
timtak
Alta-Vista used to allow one to search for punctuation (such as @) which I found very useful.