On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 07:19 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I didn't realise it was that recent (I would have guessed at 1996).
In 1996, eBay was still a small-fry.
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