Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 14, 2024

“Ask Jeeves?” Not for almost 20 years.

Before that, there was A.M.I. (Ask Mom)

Or Netscape.

Infoseek was my preferred search engine in the before times.

I had the public library encyclopedias. Cut and paste was more obvious, more literal.

I used AltaVista.

O.I vey…

You still can apparently.

How about Gopher?

I use A.I. as much as possible (Actual Intelligence).

You can always tell when Oldbot is about to look up information. He makes the dial up modem sound.

Didn’t they have to drop the “Jeeves” because of a lawsuit by the estate of an author whose series of books had a character that was a butler named Jeeves? Or was that one issue among others?

I have a 1915 edition of the Scientific American Reference Book my kids gave me years ago. It’s fascinating to read about the latest technologies, especially knowing what lies ahead.

You will have to "ask Jeeves’ about “ask jeeves”

Snippets from a conversation about defunct Search Engines in “The Big Bang Theory”:

Sheldon: MSN Search, AltaVista, and Ask Jeeves. You?

Amy: Sorry, I don’t have a list of defunct search engines that I miss.

Bert: Good question. Let’s see. Infoseek, WebCrawler, oh, HotBot!

LOL! How many readers need to look up that reference?

I would have thought first of AltaVista.

Ouch. He needs a major iOS upgrade

He’s probably so old, all of his circuits are analog.

Thanks for the memory, and yours can use an upgrade.

Oldbot’s search engine is internal combustion.

Be kind. Give him a couple of new Nvidia chips.

Oldbot is probably analog, pre-digital.

When he gets in trouble he says, “O.I. can! O.I. can!”