Funny you should mention Altavista... my draft has this:
“Seriously? No Wikipedia? No Google? What the heck is Altavista?”
“I’ve seen something like this before,” said Sky, clicking on one of the pre-defined bookmarks. “I think it was called Encarta or something like that, ran off a CD, not the internet. It’s a bit primitive compared to Wikipedia but we can work with it…”
