Post #2382910
2026-05-04 04:22 UTC
I remember back in like 4th grade when my school was just introducing us to the internet, they told us about the big (I think 6) search engines, which, if I recall, were
Yahoo, AltaVista, hotbot, lycos, ask Jeeves, and northern light
And then they also mentioned Google, which was still pretty new and hadn’t yet cemented its place in the internet yet. But they did say that Google had more results than the others, and that was all we needed to hear as kids and I think we all immediately started using Google almost exclusively.
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 04:31
Soooooo, the thing I don’t get about your memory, unless your school year is different, is that google would have debuted when you were on summer break, and it would have been #1 by the time your next school year started. It went from unfounded, to market leader in about 10 weeks. The same thing a year later with ebay. Early internet was a big open space, and everything was free real estate.