AltaVista passed on 8 July 2013, having lived eighteen years as the first search engine that made the web searchable. Born in December 1995 in Digital Equipment Corporation’s laboratories, it indexed the web when indexing was the hard problem. At its peak it processed millions of queries daily. Yahoo acquired it in 2003 as part of a larger purchase. Google had already won. AltaVista was not developed further. Yahoo announced the shutdown on 28 June 2013. A week later, the domain redirected to Yahoo Search. He is survived by every search box that replaced him, and by the conviction that someone, somewhere, still remembers how to use Boolean operators.