Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 6:14 pm

No? Me neither.

He invented the search engine, in 1993, five years before Google.

Read this very interesting article about him:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23945326

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:37 pm

Saw that article a few days ago too. I've never heard of him either and I was using search engines in '94. Webcrawler I think it was (logo of a spider in a web) and then AltaVista.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:29 am

Tricky wrote:
Saw that article a few days ago too. I've never heard of him either...

Ditto, me neither - the first search engine I ever used was Magellan, which would've been '95 (I think).

NigelJK · Post by **NigelJK** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:53 am

Ah the memories, AltaVista in Netscape Navigator.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:31 pm

interesting. hindsight must be tough.

offtopic: that tower at his uni (u of stirling) , looks very intriguing to me, but I can't find it straight away with a search. (Probably not really part of the uni itself?)

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:42 pm

Rxke wrote:
offtopic: that tower at his uni (u of stirling) , looks very intriguing to me, but I can't find it straight away with a search. (Probably not really part of the uni itself?)

That's the Wallace Monument - it's near to Stirling University, but not part of it.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:57 pm

Thanks!

wowza, quite funky looking for a neogothic building....

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:02 pm

The so-called Braveheart statue was not too popular, I see - good!

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:06 pm

Cody wrote:
The so-called Braveheart statue was not too popular, I see - good!

Not too popular is a bit of an understatement. I lived in Stirling for 5 years and I have yet to meet one person who has anything positive to say about it. It regularly gets vandalised, even behind its metal cage they had to encase it in so it looks like he is in jail. Which is ironic as the word 'Freedom' is carved into the thing on its base.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:47 pm

Yo Leafy - you back online, amigo?

Fatleaf wrote:
... even behind its metal cage they had to encase it in so it looks like he is in jail.

They should put that monumental mason who created it in jail!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:17 pm

Hi Leafy

Yeah that statue is a bit naff, isn't it? The only thing stopping it being the worst statue idea ever is the Michael Jackson statue at Craven Cottage

here · Post by **Fatleaf** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 5:59 pm

Hey Cody,Smivs! Back online, yayy

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