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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > SA's Front Page Discussion > Nostalgia for the internet's younger days: 1999's most pirated files.
 
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cmndstab
May 20, 2006

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Section 31 posted:

Yahoo was the most popular search engine back in 1999 and there was also this other search engine named AltaVista, if I wasn't wrong, which I sometimes used. No heretical word called "Googling" since Google hasn't existed..

Google existed in 99, it was just an absolute pile of poo poo before they invented AdWords and brought in a gazillion dollars to run their crazy Markov Chain search engine technology.

I remember a friend recommending that I use Google when research a project at University in 2001 and telling him that Google was rubbish, before trying it again and realising it had improved massively.

The best search engine in the late 90s was Ask Jeeves. I can search 8+ search engines at once? Sorcery!

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cmndstab
May 20, 2006

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I remember spending literally two months downloading a pirated copy of Tomb Raider 2 in 2MB chunks, only to find that my crappy computer couldn't run it.

It's not even that I wanted to play TR2. It was just, that was the only link in the pirated games text file I found that was still active.

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