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epc on Aug 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and N...

We did have search engines, just not as fast or encompassing as Google. Archie came online in 1990 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine ). Jughead and Veronica followed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughead_(search_engine) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) ). More often than not a search started with a Usenet newsgroup FAQ.

cestith on Aug 15, 2017 [–]

Don't forget we had Gopher and WAIS before the Web, too.

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