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AngryData on Oct 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you w...

Oh man I used the shit out of altavista! I swear I could find anything on there no matter how obscure, it seemed like magic at the time.

ConceptJunkie on Oct 16, 2018 [–]

Yeah, Altavista was the shizzle back in the day. I miss it, too.

IIRC, it didn't even have its own domain name for a long time, it was altavista.digital.com. There's another company I miss, having used Vaxen back in college.

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