Remember before Google?

I think i used AltaVista before.

“Hello, reference desk. How may I help you?”

That and asking smart people we knew who hoarded books in their basement.

I used the library a lot.

I remember before Altair.

We gathered together in groups and talked.
Shared our personal thoughts and experiences.

Face to Face.

I read books, newspapers and magazines. I used the library for research.

Encyclopedias.

In school we were taught the Dewey Decimal System so we could go to the library, a very quiet place and do research. The library was also a place for socialization as well. The library had a certain smell that you would instantly recognize if you were blindfolded.

I don’t use google…not a fan.

The paradigm shift between then and now is truly awesome.Great, beyond the word’s ability to convey its meaning. Akin to the difference between walking and flying.
I suspect that great good will come out of it.

I do still love walking though.

Final Fantasy on Super Nintendo.

I used Webcrawler before Google, and Northern Light before Webcrawler. And before Northern Light, I was on Gopher, so I used Veronica and Archie. Before Gopher there was nowhere to go unless you knew the dotted quad to which you wanted to telnet anyway.

Omg. Webcrawler. I remember that. It was some badass shit, at least for its time.

BG was in the days of the BG’s. ha!

Barely. I used to be an Alta Vista fan.

Before Google (and more to the point, the Internet), I would spend a lot of time at the library and bookstores.

Libraries for specific research and bookstores for just randomly flipping through dozens of magazines.

I’d often browse encyclopedias for random stuff. Kind of a stone-age Googling I guess. But it was wonderful. Libraries are wonderful. I wonder if the HS ever encounter random lass mates in the library any more? Prolly not.

Random experiment….... FAIL!!

Altavista. I first switched to Google because there were no irritating flashy banner ads. And later the text ads didn’t bother me.