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Amputate Your Head · 11-25-2002, 04:58 PM

does anyone know which one was first?

localG · 11-25-2002, 04:59 PM

the chicken i think or was it the egg

Amputate Your Head · 11-25-2002, 05:00 PM

was reading the story about the excite engine guys.... fascinating stuff..

FlyingIguana · 11-25-2002, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
was reading the story about the excite engine guys.... fascinating stuff..

post it, i'm a bit bored myself

quiet · 11-25-2002, 05:02 PM

not sure. but does anyone remember wwworm? which eventually became goto... etc?

[The Leader] · 11-25-2002, 05:04 PM

I've heard that the first web based SE was webcrawler. I have no idea if that's right or not, but I can remember using it in around 93-94. I'm sure there were SE's long before that, though.

cherrylula · 11-25-2002, 05:08 PM

here's a good lead to that question

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html

web robots are so sexy

quiet · 11-25-2002, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by [The Leader]
I've heard that the first web based SE was webcrawler. I have no idea if that's right or not, but I can remember using it in around 93-94. I'm sure there were SE's long before that, though.

there's another old bastard.

Amputate Your Head · 11-25-2002, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by quiet
not sure. but does anyone remember wwworm? which eventually became goto... etc?

i don't remember wwworm, but I remember using webcrawler way back when.... it sucked I thought at the time.... but I was on a really slow dialup too....

quiet · 11-25-2002, 05:09 PM

altavista wasn't even close to the first, but it was my favorite se for quite awhile

quiet · 11-25-2002, 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head

i don't remember wwworm, but I remember using webcrawler way back when.... it sucked I thought at the time.... but I was on a really slow dialup too....

wwworm now redirects to:

https://submit-secure.vendercom.com/...=21543&lang=en

heh.

gothweb · 11-25-2002, 05:11 PM

Not sure which was first, but of the early ones, I really liked Lycos. They hold the patent on the spider, I believe. I remember before they spun off from whatever University it was... CMU?

strobi · 11-25-2002, 05:14 PM

I was using Hotbot way back (1994?) was pretty good back then... now its completly ruined by SE spammers...

FlyingIguana · 11-25-2002, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by quiet
altavista wasn't even close to the first, but it was my favorite se for quite awhile

ya same here, but the last couple years its gone to shit

cherrylula · 11-25-2002, 05:14 PM

yeah webcrawler, I can recall a logo with a little spider?

this:

<img src=http://web.archive.org/web/19961023234707/http://www.webcrawler.com/icons/surf_logo.gif>

WiredGuy · 11-25-2002, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by quiet
not sure. but does anyone remember wwworm? which eventually became goto... etc?

Wow, those were the good old days! wwworm brings back some old memories!

WG

WiredGuy · 11-25-2002, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by quiet
not sure. but does anyone remember wwworm? which eventually became goto... etc?

Wow, those were the good old days! wwworm brings back some old memories!

WG

tree · 11-25-2002, 05:32 PM

webcrawler and hotbot were the first ones i remember using.

Hooterdog · 11-25-2002, 05:32 PM

Wow, those were the good old days! wwworm brings back some old memories!

[The Leader] · 11-25-2002, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Hooterdog
Wow, those were the good old days! wwworm brings back some old memories!

LOL

dantheman · 11-25-2002, 06:58 PM

galaxy.com was the first i remember early 95/94 also there was a crawling thingie that the schools used that for the life of me I cant thing of

EscortBiz · 11-25-2002, 06:59 PM

sublimedirectory.com ????

NoCarrier · 11-25-2002, 07:01 PM

Wow, those were the good old days! wwworm brings back some old memories!

NetRodent · 11-25-2002, 07:02 PM

Before the web was big, there was Archie for searching ftp repositorities.

http://www.netlingo.com/more/gopher.html

Manga1 · 11-25-2002, 07:41 PM

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