The Ancient Web

What did people use before Google/Yahoo/Ask(/Jeeves)/Bing and so on? Like, how did you search the web? Dark web, deep web? I'm curious about old websites, and what's lurking out there, in this infinite abyss.

Hello I'm Tilda Swinton.

G-... Gabriel?

Before sites like Lycos, BBs and Usenet were popular.

I cant remember that far back. I do remember using Russian search engines to circumvent AOL parental controls to find porn on the internet. Stupid AOL didn't know russian > : )

I remember the golden days of discovering the internet. Using Lycos image search to fap at images.

I remember..... I played runescape back then, that was pretty much all I used the internet for.

I played a character named Gabriel. But I am Tilda Swinton, androgynous person extraordinaire.

altavista.com

No way!

Did I just get trolled?

Troll? No one here trolls. Except for Tilda Swinton.

Is Tilda Swinton The Matrix?

You can't be serious.

I am.
I ask for the Ancient Web, and she is what appears. What else could she be, than the Angel of the Internet, here to guild me to the Ancient ways?
I see now.
Kagom, prophet of the Web, bringing me the true guide. A guide to the guide to the guide.
Like the Raven all you say is "Tilda Swinton", as if it were "Nevermore", yet I understand, unlike Poe's narrator. Lenore I search for, not, as I yearn for the very spirit Tilda represents.
Tilda, guide me to this godly Ancient Web.
Bring it to me, and me to it.
O glorious Tilda Swinton! O glorious KagomJack!
The beauty if the Ancient Web! I see it, now! The beauty is here! Zelaron is the Web incarnate, this gorgeous land!
Gorgeous...
Gorgeous Zelaron. Tilda Swinton has shown me the truth. I shall never leave. Never, ever, ever. Ah~

That was so retarded you made me screw up my make up.

Here's some help.

Hello, I'm Tilda Swinton.

Tilda, why didn't Ron Paul win?
In fact, why haven't I heard from Ron Paul in a few months???