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I never liked Ask Jeeves, there were several other searches available at the time, though admittedly I can't remember any of them now, ask Jeeves seemed to be a worse version of one of the others.
Asta la vista
Alta Vista? That was good search engine. Did I trample on the joke :/
I think there was actually a "darknet" version of altavista that was called Astalavista too. If you were sailing the high seas back then, or looking for the anarchists cookbook, for research purposes.
Oh wow. A very housebound friend of mine read that, always talked about the floppy disk recipe - weedkiller on one side and sugar on the other, when the computer read it - Kaboom!
I remember reading it when I was maybe 14?
The floppy disk bomb stands out as a favourite. Back then I was reading it with zero intention of ever doing any of it, just curiosity. Thank Christ I’m not a Teenager today, would 100% be on a watch list for reading that shit now.
I recall using Web Spider on Netscape Navigator circa 1997 or so. Then Yahoo! was the big deal for a few years before Google