Off-topic message confusion

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Dec 24 09:19:28 2004

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Eric Smith may have mentioned these words:
> > > How old is google anyway? Presumably it'll be on topic in a year or
> > > two? ;)
>
> Doubtful, Yahoo's only 10 years old, according to one reference - and it
> even includes what Yahoo originally stood for:
>
> http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/5082.htm
>
> When this list was started, AltaVista was king with Yahoo not far behind,
> IIRC; Google didn't come around for a few years after that.

Interestingly enough, we first learned about Google from someone posting a
message to this list about a "new experimental search engine". I wish I
could find that message to see who it was that posted it. It would have
been back in 1997 or 1998.

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