{"id":36,"date":"2021-03-09T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/paul-a-flaherty-a-developer-of-web-indexing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:17:14","slug":"paul-a-flaherty-a-developer-of-web-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/paul-a-flaherty-a-developer-of-web-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"Altavista as deep tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{\" type a. flaherty a developer of web indexing dies at computer engineer who had original idea for first internet search engine age photo><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/24\/technology\/paul-a-flaherty-a-developer-of-web-indexing-dies-at-42.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul A. Flaherty, a Developer of Web Indexing, Dies at 42 (Published 2006)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-k964ob\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px\">\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Flaherty conceived of the idea of indexing the World Wide Web as a way of demonstrating the power of a new line of Digital Equipment computers while he was on a brief business trip to Italy with his wife during the spring of 1995, she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-k964ob\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px\">\n<blockquote><p>After returning to Palo Alto, where he was a research scientist for Digital Equipment, he discussed the idea at a series of staff meetings with Louis Monier and Joella Paquette, two other Digital employees. Mr. Monier went on to become the technical leader of the project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-k964ob\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px\">Altavista was developed not to solve a customer-facing pain point but to demonstrate the power of a new line of computers.<\/div>\n<p>Founder of Altavista from Grand Rapids, <s>Michigan<\/s> Minnesota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul A. 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