Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet

qubex

The nostalgia welled up within me from depths I didn’t know I possessed.

dang

Related. Others? Old'aVista, a Guide to the Old Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069910 - Jan 2024 (12 comments)

Svip

Perhaps I am imagining it, but I immediately thought it was a pun on AltaVista in that "alt" in German means old. But there is nothing on the site that seems to suggest that that was how the name came about. (Though in that sense, you can argue the original AltaVista already meant "Old'aVista".) The only clue is this line from the FAQ: > The name of the website itself is a wordplay on Altavista. Though, the creator mentions on his own page, that he is a German citizen (due to his grandfather), even though he speaks no German and have never lived there[1]; which could mean that pun is intentional. Not that it is really all that important (like not at all), but I can't help but wonder now... [1] https://www.ericexperiment.com/about-me

mattoxic

That's very cool. But I really need to know how many people have visited the site as well as how long a page will take to download on a 56k modem.

kristianc

Seems they've done a good job of mimicking the old timey dial up connection speed as well.