Steve Madere @ Deja (Google Groups): The Developer Who Could Have Built Google
Web Masters
English - March 28, 2022 07:05 - 33 minutes - 77 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business entrepreneurship business work internet history web marketing internet marketing internet businesses web entrepreneurship Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Most people can’t imagine a form of the Internet that doesn’t involve the World Wide Web. In fact, the World Wide Web and the Internet are so deeply entwined that the majority of users don’t even realize there’s a difference. But that’s only because the World Wide Web was the winning technology. In the early days of the Web – i.e. the early 1990s – it was competing with other, similar technologies. In fact, some of those other technologies were significantly more popular.
The most popular of those competitive technologies was called Usenet. And, just like the Web, Usenet users needed a way to search. That's why Steve Madere built Deja. Deja was the search engine for Usenet, and had things gone a little different in Internet history, we might have been talking about "deja-ing" to find what we need instead of "googling."
In this episode of Web Masters, you'll hear the story of how Steve built Deja and how it could have been as impactful as Google.
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