[Timothee]

I'm thinking I was not the only one reading the title as altavista.com and I was really shocked.

Thanks for the background info on the site.

[bdmac97]

I definitely read "altavista" at first too having never heard of astalavista until now.

[danijel]

Why do you think they called it like that? It was founded in early 90's and altavista was "the" thing. I remember going there and learning about trojans, debuggers and disassembly as a kid.