THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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AltaVista and the Engineering of a Web-Scale Full-Text Search Index

AltaVista combined a highly concurrent crawler, full-text indexing and DEC Alpha servers to make tens of millions of Web pages rapidly searchable in the mid-1990s.

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