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In this episode of Offline Museum, we explore the forgotten search engine that ruled the web before Google.

AltaVista began as a hardware stress test inside a 1990s research lab and accidentally became the most powerful way to navigate the early internet. For a brief window, it defined what modern search would look like. It was faster and more comprehensive than anything that existed at the time. Then, just as quietly, it lost that future.

This is the story of how AltaVista invented the shape of search, how corporate decisions pulled it off course, and how the internet moved on without it. A piece of digital archaeology from the moment before Google became inevitable.