BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Excite
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Aliweb
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Archie
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VLib
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Detailed explanation-1: -Two years after Aliweb, search engines became mainstream and big business. Excite and AltaVista both launched in 1995, along with the less well-known MetaCrawler, Magellan and Daum. But the most significant success was Yahoo, founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Detailed explanation-2: -Back in 1992, Martijn Koster, a software developer at Nexor, built some software to manage and index the emerging Web. His work, called Aliweb, is acknowledged as the world’s first search engine.
Detailed explanation-3: -The very first search engines-JumpStation, the World Wide Web Worm, and the Repository-Based Software Engineering (RBSE) spider-used automatic programs, called robots or spiders, to request webpages and then report what they found to a database. Those first spiders weren’t that useful.