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RECLAIM YOUR DIGITAL GOLD

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THE FIRST VERSIONS OF SEARCH
ENGINES

The “Archie Query Form” was the world’s very first search
engine. Lycos, which was founded in 1994, quickly
became one of the most popular and successful search
engines (who else, except me, had an email address that
ended in.lycos?). The following year saw the launch of
AltaVista, which reached its peak usage of 80 million
users per day in 1996. This is a staggering number for
such a short period of time. Yahoo, one of the few search
engines to launch in the 1990s and survive Google’s
dominance, began operations in 1995 and continues to
operate today.

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, they
were working on a school project at Stanford University
and had a vision of a search engine that analyzed web
pages based on how many times a search term appeared
on the page. Google did not begin operations until three
years later, in 1998. Isn’t it incredible how things have
changed?

Web 1.0 is the first stage of the World Wide Web’s
evolution. In Web 1.0, the majority of users were content
consumers, with only a few exceptions being content
creators. Static pages hosted on web servers owned
by ISPs (Internet Service Providers) or free web hosting
services were commonplace.

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