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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No, I don't see mention of it being an application but like Dogpile is a web-based collector.

I did a search myself, but (given how searching sucks now) couldn't find anything. Lots of hits for search engines themselves, but getting past that to other methods back then is difficult.

It was much like an FTP or torrent program but you'd load up what search engines to use and your search words, and it would actively pull the info then provide a single page with all results.

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[–] Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 months ago

I thought it was Autonomy. You installed a program, instructed puppies agents, logged out, and while you were offline the puppies searched through several engines. Next time you logged in the findings waited for you. That was the time of 56k modems and metered connections.

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[–] notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I barely ever used it, but I'm assuming you are remembering gopher.

Gopher remained the most popular means of accessing the internet until 1994

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 point 3 months ago

Not quite that old, more in the 2000 range based on when I had my PC that I used it on. This was a GUI app for Windows. Wish I had an idea, that was like... too long ago.