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[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... do you think MySpace came before search engines?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Replace Myspace with Geocities and it's broadly correct of my experience in 90s internet.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There were a ton of search engines in the 90s around the same time Geocities was released. AskJeeves was probably the most popular, but there was Altavista, Lycos, Dogpile, Yahoo... Shit, Google came out in 97, which was only a few years after Geocities.

[–] Senuf@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

When I had my Geocities website, I used Webcrawler as my preferred search engine. Cute spider and spiderweb iso/logo. Then came Altavista (altavista.digital.com, it was at first) and I switched. It brought more and better results. Somehow I never liked Lycos. And Yahoo, the first years, was a categorised catalogue/guide, kinda curated, and you had to submit a site to be considered to be added. You had to choose under which category (and subcategory, quite often) it should be listed. Also, at first, it wasn't Yahoo.com, it was buried in some .edu (or .ac, I don't quite recall) URL.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Webrings ftw

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yahoo Directory is the OG

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was altavista really a search engine?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lycos

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AskJeeves

[–] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dogpile. Webcrawler. Gopher.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I was always partial to hotbot

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically yes, but there were also a ton more, including Google.