Used it all the time in the early 90s. Even though the tech was very primitive back then, I miss the academic spirit and open collaborative nature of it all. Corporate greed has really wrecked the open web.
corporate greed has ruined the world
Why not link to it? Here we go:
Working online Archie Search Instance
Aaaaand it was hugged to death
Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
Google search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
Can we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
The future is HotBot, baby!
Pretty sure Ask Jeeves is still around, but from what I understand it’s basically useless.
Technology is cyclical
A day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
Anyone wants to explain the niceness selector?
The serial port made a really good video about it recently. This channel is pretty amazing for early internet content.
Archive, Veronica, and Gopher… The Usenet trio
I was not even using gopher until 92 and did not use a graphical interface to the internet until at least 96 but maybe 97 or 98.
