Comment by NikkiA
2 years ago
'Tru64' would likely date this as being after Altavista's hayday, when it'd still have been called 'DEC Unix', or more usually 'OSF/1' if you were differentiating from Ultrix.
2 years ago
'Tru64' would likely date this as being after Altavista's hayday, when it'd still have been called 'DEC Unix', or more usually 'OSF/1' if you were differentiating from Ultrix.
Probably. I don't remember when Altavista's "heyday" was.
Tru64 was after Compaq bought DEC in 98.
96-98 really, google rapidly ate their lunch after launching in the back end of '98.
I'll grant I remember still occasionally using altavista in 99, but google had very much become my primary search by then, and the same was true for pretty much everyone I knew.
I have a vague recollection of compaq closing it down shortly after buying it, then reopening it after some outcry - coinciding with it changing URLs from being the subdomain off digital.com.
Of course, Lycos, inktomi and others were all vying for attention around then too.