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Old 14th February 2006, 21:46   #20 (permalink)
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Wow, I also remember surfing the internet (what there was of it, mainly University sites) on a Sun Sparc station running Mosaic in 1994. Like you later we got Netscape. We also used to use gopher to search for information. There also used to be archie (xarchie ?) to search for software. We used to used use the command tool to ftp into software sites.
Remember the commandline tool rn, for reading news groups like S.C.I and of course Dr.Jai Maharaj.



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After a few years there were a few search engines, yahoo, hotbot, excite and later Alta Vista.
The first real engine I remember is webcrawler.

Now, coming to the main question. Can I live without google? Yup, I can. I can live without Internet too. But if I have Internet and no search engine, that could be a problem.
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