Amaya Toman In today's episode of our series called Back to the Past, we will recall two phenomena of the nineties of the last century. We remember the arrival of the search tool AltaVista and the launch of the Netscape Navigator 1.0 web browser.
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Here Comes AltaVista (1995)
At a time when the mass spread of the Internet was still in its infancy, Digital Equipment Corporation researchers - Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier and Michael Burrows - founded a web tool called AltaVista. The tool was launched on December 15, 1995, and originally operated at altavista.digital.com. AltaVista used a fast multi-threaded standalone page search and ran in a powerful search environment. It didn't take long, and AltaVista's services began to be used exclusively by, for example, the popular search engine Yahoo!. But his position gradually began to weaken. Digital Equipment Corporation was sold to Compaq in 1998, which launched AltaVista as a web portal, but Google got involved and AltaVista faded into the background. After several other acquisitions and attempts to resurrect AltaVista, it finally came to an end in 2013.
Nestscape 1.0 is released (1994)
On December 15, 1994, Netscape Navigator version 1.0 was released. The public first officially learned about Netscape Navigator in the first half of October 1994 through a press release that stated, among other things, that the browser would be available to all non-commercial users completely free of charge. The full version of Netscape Navigator saw the light of day in December 1994, at the same time its beta versions 1.0 and then 1.1 were also available until March 1995. In the mid-nineties of the last century, Netscape Navigator enjoyed great popularity among users, gradually but unfortunately it was overtaken by competition in the form of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
