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		Thoreandan on Feb 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Go... Hmmm, and their robots.txt seems to not be at fault. I wonder if they excluded it to not overlap with Alta Vista, still it's tragic that digital.com isn't browsable in the wayback machine.

fencepost on Feb 17, 2019 [–]

This may be a question of age. DEC was acquired by Compaq in 1998, then the IA was only a couple years old.

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