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arrow-up1197arrow-down1external-linkRemembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”arstechnica.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squarenoahm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoYeah, I used to type “putty download”, click “I’m feeling lucky”, and go. It worked 100% of the time. I wouldn’t try it these days, even if I needed putty.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoWell how prominent will plumber’s putty or silly putty have the word Download on a page?
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoYou wouldn’t download a silly putty.
minus-squarenoahm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoThese day’s I’d be more worried that I’d be taken to some malware infested lookalike.
Yeah, I used to type “putty download”, click “I’m feeling lucky”, and go.
It worked 100% of the time. I wouldn’t try it these days, even if I needed putty.
Well how prominent will plumber’s putty or silly putty have the word Download on a page?
You wouldn’t download a silly putty.
These day’s I’d be more worried that I’d be taken to some malware infested lookalike.