Книга: Internet Properties Established in 1995: Internet Chess Club, Ebay, Snopes.com, Yahoo!, Stormfront, Gamefaqs, Msn, Craigslist, Hell.com

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Internet Chess Club, Ebay, Snopes, Yahoo!, Stormfront, Gamefaqs, Msn, Craigslist, Hell, Hotmail, Pitchfork Media, Outpost Gallifrey, Sev Wide Web, Match, Classmates, Free Internet Chess Server, Technosphere, Rpgamer, Altavista, Salon, Vigile.net, Espn, Suck, Zug, the Mud Connector, Go, Doityourself, Hong Kong Movie Database, Antiwar, Find a Grave, Mirsky's Worst of the Web, Rapture Ready, Namebase, World of Spectrum, Interactive Investor International, the Linux Game Tome, Internet Public Library, Findlaw, Czech Movie Heaven. Excerpt: Type : Private The old AltaVista logo AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo! . AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity has waned with the rise of Google . Origins AltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation 's Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier. Although there is some dispute about who was responsible for the original idea, two key participants were Louis Monier , who wrote the crawler , and Michael Burrows , who wrote the indexer . The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at altavista.digital. At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the other search engines It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) which could cover many more Web pages than were believed to exist at the time and an efficient search running back-end on advanced hardware. As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard...