Back in my day...

[ebarker]

Recently I took some team members to my homeown and explained to them how my version of 'google' worked back in the day,, here goes:

So when I was young I'm sitting around and something comes to mind and I'd say - what is the answer to 'X'. So I'd jump on the bike, ride down pine street 1/2 mile, turn left, go 2 blocks to laurel street, turn right, ride about 8 blocks, turn left into the library. Run up the steps, through the door, then left to the card catalog. The catalog was the way we would do a 'search'. I'd look up the topic in a card catalog, which was a bunch of drawers of index cards, find the ISBN number, run upstairs to the stacks, and hopefully no one had the book removed from the shelf. Next query - repeat. Did this daily.

Every time we drove by this place the team would say "there's google" !!