I wondered whether someone would catch me on that. Yeah, I know AltaVista gave up the ghost a while ago. I still ~think~ "AltaVista"; I type "alta" in the address bar and select Yahoo from the list.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Programmer: We've all heard that the Inuits have 22 different words for snow...the English-speaking sailor has about the same number for "rope" and the carpenter considerably more for "piece of wood"; all three of them have special distinctions for the things that are important in their everyday lives. (And the programmer for "element of storage", come to think of it.) Screenwriter: Actually, screenwriters have 92 words for "gratuitously sexy." -From an email conversation, summer 1998 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 20:20 Not gonna sue you, but you realize AltaVista died in 2003, right? You’re using Yahoo, whose continued existence is a mystery to all. --- On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:52 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > You had me convinced, Tony :). I've recently started using "Google", > capitalized, to mean Google, but the lower-case verb "google" to mean > simply that I searched for something on-line. (By habit I use AltaVista, > actually. So I'm an old fart - so sue me.) So when I finally noticed that > you were saying "google" and not "Google", I thought maybe you were > referring to the internet generally, not Wikipedia specifically. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
