1. Altavista
Has always been so minimalistic in design and returns useful results consistently. One nifty app that I still use for fun and research is the Babelfish (a nod to Douglas Adams fans).
2. WebCrawler
My second favourite search engine after Altavista. Its results are presented in a pleasant format.
3. Lycos
Lycos was probably the first search engine with lots of news links and little applications that Google is so well known for now.
4. Excite
Excite's design hasn't changed much since the beginning: just as messy. The results are quite accurate though.
5. Netscape
The darling of the early Web. Old timers were surfing using Netscape betas, cool! Back then, nobody heard of Internet Explorer, just Mozilla and mostly lynx (ahh beauty).
In another year, Google would be ten years old anyway.
Links:
Wikipedia - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET>
Search Engine Watch - Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved
<URL:http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175241>
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