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What's your favorite memory from the early internet?
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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.