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I've no idea what you're trying to say.



Astalavista was the main warez search engine in the pre-google era and it was a play of words with altavista which was the most popular search engine at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astalavista.box.sk


It wasn't a play on AltaVista -- Astalavista was actually older than AltaVista! It says so in the Wikipedia article you link to. I also only learned this mindblowing fact a few weeks ago.


Likely a reference to an old search engine (altavista), which of course sucked next to google.

Yet, it ironically gave better results than Google does today.


No, to Astalavista, which was also a search engine, but for pirated and other illegal stuff.


Now that you mention it. I had near completely forgot.

I knew that site at some point.




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