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Yeah, what is the recognition of Jeeves/Wooster among the millennials?

As a millennial, the TV show with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry was played when I was a kid, and I've rewatched it several times as an adult and read a few of the books. Our kids have watched the show with us too. I'm currently trying to learn the theme on the piano. I'm sure it'll continue in some niche, much like Agatha Christie, where I've seen some recent youtube vids by younger people discovering how well they're…

It's a very formulaic series, but it is fun. Possibly the best thing Stephen Fry ever did.

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None of the search engines from that era were really good. AltaVista was perhaps the best, but AskJeeves was up there and people used multiple. AltaVista, AskJeeves, Yahoo, etc. They all had their pros and cons. Then Google arrived and showed them what a “good” search engine was like.

And now every search engine has been flooded with SEO’d AI slop and they all suck again.

Kagi has done a good job of making it easy to cut through slop so far. I never really deal with slop search results
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