Which search engine did you use before Google/Bing?

I think I was using Altavista and Yahoo.
That brings back a lot of memories, I can't even remember when Altavista shut down and I think I did my first yahoo search for years the other day (trying to find a specific style of gate latch and google and MS search were only bringing up about 4 relevant results).
 
It's been a long while but I think it was Yahoo because I used to troll the chat rooms.
 
Pretty much all, but AOL mainly. Anyone remember Splatterball?

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Oh dear the good ol' days of AOL dial-up:

Welcome to AOL, Goodbye!
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The above is what the AOL sounds played, it was the Welcome sound for when you connect followed very quicky by been disconnected, eg the Goodybe part :D

You could spend 15 minutes sometimes just trying to get on the dam thing and when you finally did you would often question yourself was it worth the effort :p

As for search engines in the early days before Google was mainstream, I used Ask Jeeves, Altavista, All The Web and Yahoo!
 
mattyfez said:
Indeed, back in the day, downloading a neekid pic would take 10 mins, and fill up a whole floppy disk. That was a revelation compared to finding grot mags hidden in hedges!
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Reminds me of that episode from The Simpsons where comic book guy is downloading images on his dial-up and you can see the image slowly trying to load one horizontal line at a time from top to bottom :p
 
toon_mad said:
Reminds me of that episode from The Simpsons where comic book guy is downloading images on his dial-up and you can see the image slowly trying to load one horizontal line at a time from top to bottom :p
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I remember wondering why images loaded top to bottom and not the other way...

Lots of memories flooding back (good ol Netscape), I think Northern Lights was up there as one of the first I used properly. Back in the day I'm sure there wasn't all that much to find, you knew the website you were going to or you didn't :p
 
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