BrandedLogoDesigns Review:This was from ICQ, Napster, Second Life and Co.

Many old digital sizes like Altavista, Winamp and Co. are today's snow yesterday. Com! Professional takes a look at the descent of the former overflights.

Altavista, Napster, ICQ or Second Life were once extremely popular on-line services, without which hardly anyone could get away. They were the flyers on the Internet or as a standard program installed on any computer. Meanwhile, they have disappeared meaninglessly or completely. Com! Professional is on the trail of the once-digital overpassers.
Long before Google dominated the search engine market at will, Altavista was the first stop for many Internet users. The service started in 1995 under the URL http://altavista.dec.com and for many years was the market leader in the web search. Altavista's algorithm used the meta tags of web pages for its search results. In addition, text fragments were also indexed and included in the ranking. After the unsuccessful attempt to establish Altavista as a web portal, the focus was again placed on the actual web search. Since the competitor Google, however, much more effort for his search engine operated, Altavista gradually sank in insignificance. After several acquisitions, the last owner - Yahoo - 2013 finally stopped the service.

From the standard tool to the shopkeeper

A similar fate came to the once so popular Mediaplayer Winamp. The software was released in 1997 and was developed by Justin Frankel, Dmitry Boldyrev and Gianluca Rubinacci. Winamp quickly established itself as a standard player for Windows users, especially since the software after the takeover by AOL was completely free. Unfortunately, the newer versions of the software increasingly caused problems, as more and more users switched to other players. In 2013, Winamp was to be finally discontinued, but a buyer of the software was unhappy. Since then, the user has been waiting for new versions of the player.

Many other online platforms, but also programs from the spring of the Internet are now history. In our picture gallery you can see more digital sizes of the past.

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