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Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 6:14 pm
by JazHaz
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
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:37 pm
by Tricky
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.
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:29 am
by Cody
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).
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:53 am
by NigelJK
Ah the memories, AltaVista in Netscape Navigator.
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:31 pm
by Rxke
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?)
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:42 pm
by Disembodied
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.
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:57 pm
by Rxke
Thanks!
wowza, quite funky looking for a neogothic building....
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:02 pm
by Cody
The so-called Braveheart statue was not too popular, I see - good!
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:06 pm
by Fatleaf
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.
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:47 pm
by Cody
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!
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:17 pm
by Smivs
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 
Re: Have you ever heard of Jonathon Fletcher?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 5:59 pm
by Fatleaf
Hey Cody,Smivs! Back online, yayy
