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To: petro45acp; Mad Dawgg
... direct result of Netscape’s successful IPO and the “dot com” boom (who laid the groundwork for that one?).

To say nothing of the best (at the time) Web Search Engine AltaVista, predating Google by three years.

44 posted on 04/16/2012 7:29:33 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: brityank

AMEN!!!

mmmmmmmm AltaVista! Back then, it was a complete meta-scrape of the internet. Faster, Higher, Louder!

And that cool mountain skyline.

I miss it. The current “yahoo-vista” is weak tea by comparison.


45 posted on 04/16/2012 7:57:23 PM PDT by petro45acp ("Don't" read 'HOPE' by L Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman...it can bring tears to eyes.)
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