Tim Bouma on Nostr: I lived through that web phase shift which happened in 1996. I worked for a company ...
I lived through that web phase shift which happened in 1996. I worked for a company that sold the search engine software for the backends of AOL, Compuserve, etc. The web hit like a storm in early 1996 when Bill Gates decided to pivot. I was on the Microsoft campus at the time and saw the internal memo. Within two years, we saw our market disappear for search engines to be replaced by webcrawlers. Then Google hit with their PageRank algorithm.
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