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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.

old guy takes long hit on the bong

“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

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28 points

“if you can believe it, at one point there were no search engines, and if you wanted to know what was out there you had to get a big book that listed all the websites.”

*gasp!

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Proud owner of “The Internet Yellow Pages” here. I wonder if I still have my copy in storage.

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There is a blast from the past. I forgot about that, thanks for the reminder.

Some images: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=internet+yellow+pages&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fd0mojqvbku741.jpg

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10 points

Wow classic

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I think mine was first or second edition. Same or similar cover to the third but less than half as thick.

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