The guy who owns frogfind.com finally fixed his site!
It was going to a blank page when searching!!
For a week or so and I had been emailing him.. It was like he didnt care anymore...
I fixed the certificate-store problem on windows 98 and some other old OS's. When you get to the screen to select a store, click the checkbox underneath to show the choices of where the certificates go, and choose Registry. Then they will all happily go in.
More search engines have abandoned the oldest browsers. Yahoo still works on most (au.search.yahoo.com) but not all, while nearly all the other worthwhile engines no longer work.
Hi, just for the sake of curiosity: Is or was there any search engine site that worked with the earliest web browsers?
Such as Minuet internet suite, which does not support sending user input to the server?
Again, just for sake of curiosity. I wonder if there was or is a site with, say, an alphabetic index or a virtual keyboard.
I can imagine that such a virtual keyboard might have called an html site for each letter clicked, followed by a re-direction to the main site.
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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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DuckDuckGo lite is nice, but it would be cool if they added image search to it.
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My earliest browser was IE2, didn't actually get to use the internet until Netscape at work.
Some of the search regressions:
- dogpile.com has turned into dog shit, refusing to connect.
- lycos.com delivers a blank white screen, unusable
- bing can't decide what to do: in IE8 it says the browser is unsupported; in netscape you get the whole screen but does nothing after entering the search term; most other browsers a grey screen with the search box. After entering the search term it returns the list of results, but choosing any of them gets a bing error and not able to get anywhere. Bing encrypts the links so you can't just copy and paste it. Nasty site.
- tried a few others from the old days and none worked.
Wayback Machine badly needs a decent search engine. It barely makes use of meta keywords even, mostly trying to match the query with domain names. As a result, a huge part -- perhaps even most -- of the ancient web is functionally inaccessible because you need a direct link or URL to access the sites. (the search engines drop defunct sites from their database after a couple months and will not return them as results)
bakemono wrote on 2025-12-05, 16:16:https://search.aol.com/
works in Opera 12, without JS, including the image search
Image search no longer works 🙁
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