• tarneo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I wasn’t born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren’t total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don’t want sites like wikihow to come up… I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.

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      1 year ago

      Search was such a crapshoot prior to Google, you’d have to try two or three search engines which all had very mixed results. Often it was easier to just ask someone a question on a forum if you had a tech problem. Early Google was a different beast, nothing else was as fast and direct for results.