What It Was Like Trying To Find Something On The Internet In The ’90s
Seriously. How many search engines on this “World Wide Web” is it going to take?
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What It Was Like Trying To Find Something ...
Leonora Epstein
1. You need to find something. First, you’re like: Screw this shit.
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2. You could go to the library, but they’re NEVER OPEN.
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3. Dad’s Encyclopedia Britannica collection? Books: ugh.
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4. So you try looking on Yahoo. Ugh…what is all this random stuff?
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6. You should try HotBot. They update their listings WAY more often. (Or so I hear.)
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7. Did you try Lycos? It’s one of those crawler ones. You want the crawl.
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8. What about InfoSeek? They have…what’s it called? Hooligan? Oh, Boolean. Yeah, they have that.
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9. Still nothing? What about AltaVista. They have all the sites. I think.
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10. Why aren’t you searching on Dogpile. Hello! They take the searches from all the other searches and then it’s all the stuff.
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11. Ugh, that was overwhelming. There’s this refined gentleman who appears to know a lot. Did you Ask Jeeves? You did? Yeah, his answers kind of suck.
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12. Well there is this new thing I heard of called…Google? I know Goo-gle. Hahahaha.
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13. Getting closer? You can always check this book. Or call 411. Or just ask your cool history teacher who knows everything.
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