Thursday 28 February 2013

What It Was Like Trying To Find Something On The Internet In The '90s

1. You need to find something. First, you're like: Screw this shit.

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Source:  nowpublic.com

2. You could go to the library, but they're NEVER OPEN.

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Source:  hillsboroillinois.net

3. Dad's Encyclopedia Britannica collection? Books: ugh.

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Source:  mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

4. So you try looking on Yahoo. Ugh...what is all this random stuff?

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Source:  glenscott.co.uk

5. Maybe Excite will be better? No...

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Source:  sixrevisions.com

6. You should try HotBot. They update their listings WAY more often. (Or so I hear.)

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Source:  sixrevisions.com

7. Did you try Lycos? It's one of those crawler ones. You want the crawl.

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Source:  taringa.net

8. What about InfoSeek? They have...what's it called? Hooligan? Oh, Boolean. Yeah, they have that.

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Source:  sixrevisions.com

9. Still nothing? What about AltaVista. They have all the sites. I think.

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Source:  dgtalnws.com

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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Source:  sixrevisions.com

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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Source:  eweek.com

12. Well there is this new thing I heard of called...Google? I know Goo-gle. Hahahaha.

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Source:  warriorforum.com

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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Source:  amazon.ca

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