The oldest search engine I could specifically remember using was Hotbot, but it debuted in 1996 and I’d been online for 2 years at that point. I don’t remember what I used before it.
Lycos was a big deal for a while, and apparently debuted in 1994. They had a dog and everything. Altavista was certainly a thing for some time as well.
Webcrawler edged out Lycos to be the oldest by about a month.
Any reason to switch to this snazzy new service over Webcrawler?
You always remember your first…
The oldest search engine I could specifically remember using was Hotbot, but it debuted in 1996 and I’d been online for 2 years at that point. I don’t remember what I used before it.
Webcrawler and yahoo! are the earliest I recall using.
I remember using Yahoo!, so that’d be it.
Lycos was a big deal for a while, and apparently debuted in 1994. They had a dog and everything. Altavista was certainly a thing for some time as well.
Webcrawler edged out Lycos to be the oldest by about a month.
Good call, I’d forgotten about Lycos.