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What happened to Altavista

· David Farquhar · June 29, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
retro computing Web Development search-engines History of Technology Altavista
Summary
This blog post reflects on the history and decline of Altavista, a once-popular search engine from the 1990s, shedding light on its impact in the early days of web searching.
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