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December 15, 1983: AltaVista Launches
<img width="200" height="200" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AltaVista-21.gif" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" />
<img decoding="async" width="200" height="200" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2014/12/AltaVista-21.gif" alt="AltaVista" class="wp-image-24000" />AltaVista
1995 – At the turn of the Internet age, researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation, led by Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier and Michael Burrows, created a web crawler and indexer algorithm. The web program was launched on December 15th and called “AltaVista”. The name was chosen because of the surrounds of their company in Palo Alto, CA.
The original name was altavista.digital.com and used a multi-threaded crawler (Scooter). The back-end was running on advanced hardware, therefore it could gather information faster than any other web crawling software out there.
AltaVista was one of the top search engines out there until Google overtook them all. Ultimately, in 2003 AltaVista was purchased by Yahoo! who continued to run it until 2013 when it was shut down.
<img decoding="async" width="300" height="196" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2012/12/apple-1984-big-brother-superbowl1-300x196.jpg" alt="1984 Apple Superbowl Commercial" class="wp-image-20437" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/apple-1984-big-brother-superbowl1-300x196.jpg 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/apple-1984-big-brother-superbowl1.jpg 560w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />1984 Apple Superbowl Commercial
1983 – There is some debate whether this happened on Dec. 15h or 31st. If you were a citizen of Twin Falls, Idaho and up at 1 AM watching
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<img decoding="async" width="300" height="215" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2012/12/Apple-1984-Ad1-300x215.jpg" alt="Apple Superbowl ad 1984" class="wp-image-20438" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Apple-1984-Ad1-300x215.jpg 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Apple-1984-Ad1.jpg 488w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Apple Superbowl ad 1984
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<img width="200" height="200" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AltaVista-21.gif" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" />
<img decoding="async" width="200" height="200" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2014/12/AltaVista-21.gif" alt="AltaVista" class="wp-image-24000" />AltaVista
1995 – At the turn of the Internet age, researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation, led by Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier and Michael Burrows, created a web crawler and indexer algorithm. The web program was launched on December 15th and called “AltaVista”. The name was chosen because of the surrounds of their company in Palo Alto, CA.
The original name was altavista.digital.com and used a multi-threaded crawler (Scooter). The back-end was running on advanced hardware, therefore it could gather information faster than any other web crawling software out there.
AltaVista was one of the top search engines out there until Google overtook them all. Ultimately, in 2003 AltaVista was purchased by Yahoo! who continued to run it until 2013 when it was shut down.
<img decoding="async" width="300" height="196" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2012/12/apple-1984-big-brother-superbowl1-300x196.jpg" alt="1984 Apple Superbowl Commercial" class="wp-image-20437" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/apple-1984-big-brother-superbowl1-300x196.jpg 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/apple-1984-big-brother-superbowl1.jpg 560w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />1984 Apple Superbowl Commercial
1983 – There is some debate whether this happened on Dec. 15h or 31st. If you were a citizen of Twin Falls, Idaho and up at 1 AM watching
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- ISO C90 is released
- Fortran 95 is released
- Twitter rival
<img decoding="async" width="300" height="215" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2012/12/Apple-1984-Ad1-300x215.jpg" alt="Apple Superbowl ad 1984" class="wp-image-20438" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Apple-1984-Ad1-300x215.jpg 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Apple-1984-Ad1.jpg 488w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Apple Superbowl ad 1984