Version: 2008
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August 1, 2008 6:05 PM PDT

AltaVista was the Google of the late '90s. It was one of the most popular search engines of its time. Still in existence, AltaVista is now owned by Yahoo and is powered by Yahoo Search.

This screenshot is from October 1996.

Photo by The Wayback Machine

Caption by John Sheesley

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