Comment by swozey
2 years ago
This is scraping internetarchive (for keywords? not sure how categories are made), how did altavista add sites? Did you ask them to add yours? Were they scraping something?
My friend never used the internet pre-google and I was trying to explain how searches work and I only remember #aoltags, prodigy or mindspring or some other service (that had everquest/meridian59/that dragon game?) and I couldn't remember what the results of using alta/dogpile/etc looked like.
I just looked up meridian 59 and they put the music on spotify
June 25, 2022 The Meridian 59 soundtrack is now available on Spotify and Amazon Music! https://open.spotify.com/artist/0lGsRspRVt5SFMUa60bkWH?si=53...
> how did altavista add sites? Did you ask them to add yours? Were they scraping something?
Yes and yes — they had a web crawler*, and you could also submit sites.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#:~:text=At%20launch%....