Paul Flaherty, A Founder Of AltaVista, Passes Away UPDATED
Sad news that Paul Flaherty, one of the founders of AltaVista, passed away on
Friday. I don’t have more details at the moment, other than that there was to be
a wake and funeral for him today. The news came to me from Jeff Black, a former
general manager of AltaVista. I’ll postscript more below as I hear. FYI, Richard
Selzter has a nice guide to some early AltaVista alumnus here. An old home
page for Paul is here. Chris Sherman has some early history of AltaVista here.
Postscript: More information on funeral arrangements, Paul’s background, family donations can now be found here.
Postscript by Barry: On March 26th, the KTLA posted this update on Paul Flaherty.
AP also has coverage here.
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