Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Now, you can search the old, good web with Old'aVista, an #Altavista lookalike that ...
Now, you can search the old, good web with Old'aVista, an #Altavista lookalike that searches old pages from "personal websites that used to be hosted on services like Geocities, Angelfire, AOL, Xoom and so on," all ganked from the #InternetArchive.
I miss the old, good internet and the way it let weirdos find each other and get seriously weird with one another.
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2024-01-20 15:23:57Event JSON
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