Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?

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Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?

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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
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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.
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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).
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Ah the memories, AltaVista in Netscape Navigator.
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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?)
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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.
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Thanks!

wowza, quite funky looking for a neogothic building....
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The so-called Braveheart statue was not too popular, I see - good!
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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.
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Yo Leafy - you back online, amigo?
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... 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!
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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 :lol:
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Hey Cody,Smivs! Back online, yayy :D
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