AltaVista (2002) T-Shirt

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Celebrate the search engine that helped make the early web easier to explore. AltaVista launched publicly in 1995 from Palo Alto, using its Scooter crawler and TurboVista database to build a fast, full-text index of the growing World Wide Web. Traffic surged from launch day into tens of millions of daily hits, and the service later passed through several corporate owners before its domain redirected to Yahoo Search in 2013. This shirt connects a familiar name with a defining story in internet and search history.

AltaVista was a pioneering web search engine created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation to showcase company hardware and make files on its public network easier to find. Based in Palo Alto, California, it publicly launched on December 15, 1995, with a fast web crawler called Scooter and an efficient search database called TurboVista. It offered a full-text, Boolean-searchable index of the World Wide Web, and traffic grew from 300,000 hits on launch day to more than 80 million per day by 1997. Yahoo used AltaVista search results exclusively from 1996 until the arrangement ended in 1998. After Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation in January 1998, AltaVista became part of Compaq. In 1999, Compaq spun off the service, redesigned it as a web portal, and sold 83 percent to CMGI. AltaVista later returned to a search-focused design. Overture Services acquired it in February 2003, and Yahoo acquired Overture in July that year. In June 2013, the AltaVista domain redirected to Yahoo Search.

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