Simon Willison's Weblog: internet-historyhttp://simonwillison.net/2019-02-16T18:57:43+00:00Simon WillisonDiscussion about Altavista on Hacker News2019-02-16T18:57:43+00:002019-02-16T18:57:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/Feb/16/discussion-about-altavista-hacker-news/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170950">Discussion about Altavista on Hacker News</a></strong></p>
Fascinating thread on Hacker News where Bryant Durrell, a former Director from Altavista provides some insider thoughts on how they lost against Google.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/computer-history">computer-history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-history">internet-history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search">search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search-engines">search-engines</a></p>
"I made the first animated under construction icon"2009-10-15T14:11:53+00:002009-10-15T14:11:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/15/twoleftfeet/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/85695/Please-Be-Patient-This-Page-is-Under-Construction#2774563">"I made the first animated under construction icon"</a></strong></p>
twoleftfeet on MetaFilter describes how he created the first ever Under Construction animation in 1995, after discovering his server-push animations could be replaced by the exciting new animated GIF.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/animation">animation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gifs">gifs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/history">history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-history">internet-history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/metafilter">metafilter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/underconstruction">underconstruction</a></p>