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Accidental Tech Podcast

373: This Jerk, Right Here

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 149 minutes

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0:00.0

What did you use before Google and you know modern like ductile go like what were your first web search engines?

0:07.6

Altavista and

0:09.3

Wasn't there web crawl something was actually called web crawler? I thought was that was one

0:13.0

I mean there were a bunch back like in the late 90s

0:15.0

There were a ton that were really getting off the ground

0:17.6

You know Google really didn't take over and become the thing until like 2000 and later

0:23.5

You know that most of the 90s it was a a very dynamic landscape

0:27.4

We just we just talked about this on rectiffs. Oh, yeah

0:32.0

I mean not much I don't know how we got on a topic, but yeah, we're talking about that the search engines before Google

0:37.6

Yeah, I think all to Vista was the best one for a while

0:41.0

I'm ever using that a lot. I used I

0:43.8

Briefly used ask jeez there is those wait for it. I was waiting for it

0:47.8

There was like you know likeos and I used Yahoo for a while. Oh, that's true Yahoo

0:53.2

There was a window a time early on the Yahoo was actually very good and now it's yeah hotpot was was a big one back then

0:59.4

There were a whole bunch is not so like a search engine anymore. Yeah, right?

1:05.0

Yeah, like it was it was a while before Google really took it over

1:08.6

I never used MSN

1:10.1

We you know actually there became Bing never really got into the Microsoft services side of things

1:15.4

You know what I did use by way of my grandparents my grandparents had and

1:20.7

Loved and it actually was really good for them and I say that with no sarcasm

1:25.2

They used in loved the web TV which eventually became the MSN web TV. Did you ever see these ever use these?

1:32.0

I remember doing web development and the worst browser to support was web TV

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