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2022-11-06 10:55 UTC

@sitharus@cloudisland.nz @busesarecoolactually@toot.community There's no full-text search, and that's a lot like AltaVista used to be - subject based and looking for information, not looking for something you can use against someone.

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@GirtBySea@aus.social 2022-11-06 15:52

@nzlemming@mastodon.nz @sitharus@cloudisland.nz @busesarecoolactually@toot.community As I remember Altavista wasn"t just a subject directory, it had genuine crawling & indexing of web pages. Looksmart, which local smartie Evan Thornley made a motzah on, was a directory search engine. https://www.afr.com/technology/we-ve-been-duped-by-big-tech-says-the-aussie-who-tried-to-buy-google-20191211-p53j3v But as local smarties go, none could match the chutzpah of Sean Howard, -- - -who put someone's incredibly useful software (trumpet winsock) to put on his mag cover disk. It's a classic court case, "the login file was modified so that rather than connecting the user's computer with any ISP selected by the user, connection was made automatically with OzEmail" http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTasLawRw/1996/13.pdf

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