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title: DOS is dead
date: "2001-11-07T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1576
description: I reflect on the decline of legacy technologies in late 2001, noting the end of the MS-DOS era and the potential downfall of the AltaVista search engine as the web landscape shifts toward newer standards.
keywords: [ms-dos, altavista, search engines, operating systems, web history, technology trends]
---

[DOS is dead](http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1437/byt20011028s0001/1029_editor.html). Is [Altavista dying](http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7630946.html) too?