I've been on site site for years. I created an account just to comment on this thread. Holy crap, the only time I've ever heard 'Hister' was in a book I read on Nostradamus like 30 years ago.
Yep. I think I know which book you are thinking of. Maybe a search assistant programmed in Go could be named Go-ring! You know, short for "go" and "webring".
