Searching the web with google is not the same as searching the web. Google will only show you what Google wants you to see. To search the web, you need to know what you are looking for. If you don’t know, you will only see a suggestion.
Excite, Yahoo, Webcrawler, AltaVista. Before those was Gopher. And we used texting or ftp transfers to exchange information. Those were the days my friends ….
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
Search engines are nice.
BlueIris Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Goodness! A slow day. I like it, too, John! However, you’re REALLY a geek if you remember before Google!
craigwestlake almost 6 years ago
Some things never change; my kid tried to convince his teacher that the dog ate his laptop…
DieterWiesner almost 6 years ago
Searching the web with google is not the same as searching the web. Google will only show you what Google wants you to see. To search the web, you need to know what you are looking for. If you don’t know, you will only see a suggestion.
R D K Alcock almost 6 years ago
Ah yes. Good old AltaVista.
MosheWaisberg almost 6 years ago
Yahoo! at 5kbs
mikeszeller Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I agree, real geeks remember Altavista, Lycos, etc…..
bbbmorrell almost 6 years ago
Of course I remember before lycos. my first search engine: encyclopedias and the cardex
mark_t_regan Premium Member almost 6 years ago
What happened to today’s (Feb. 28th) strip?
destryrides almost 6 years ago
Alta Vista of course.
wbezemek almost 6 years ago
Excite, Yahoo, Webcrawler, AltaVista. Before those was Gopher. And we used texting or ftp transfers to exchange information. Those were the days my friends ….
Barnabus Blackoak almost 6 years ago
OMG! whatiz name in the back is awake!
Nick Danger almost 6 years ago
Get Trumpet Winsock through DOS-based FTP, install it so you can use Windows 3.1-based tools and then get Mosaic. Enjoy…
And don’t forget the glories of BBS…
jbarnes almost 6 years ago
You’re either a geek or so young that Google has always been part of your life if you ask that question. My youngest looks things up by asking Alexa.
jud03005 almost 6 years ago
The dog, as in Dogpile.com?
Nuclear Nemesis almost 6 years ago
Ask Jeeves
trixnnort almost 6 years ago
they were called books.