Do You Remember When You First Used Google?

Posted on August 13th, 2007 in Rave by Bret

By the time you read this post I should be completely entrenched in one of two books I have set aside for my summer vacation reading list:

At this point I haven’t decided which book I’ll read along with the rest of my list. I did, however, skim the first few pages of the John Battelle book and was struck by a quote on the first page:

The library of Alexandria was the first time humanity attempted to bring the sum total of human knowledge together in one place at one time. Our latest attempt? Google. — Brewster Kahle

Wow! Pretty powerful quote, and it got me thinking: When did I first use Google and what was my first impression? I can’t answer either question but I know for certain that not a day goes by where I don’t use Google.

Do you remember when you first used Google? What did you think? Can you imagine the Internet without Google?

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2 Responses to 'Do You Remember When You First Used Google?'

  1. Barry said,

    on August 13th, 2007 at 6:20 am

    I use Google for everything from my starting home page to get the weather; Gmail for those persons who I don’t want to give my “real” email address to; Google Chat so I can IM my wife whose employer won’t let her install the more popular IM programs; Google Maps for directions when I don’t have my GPS with me; and of course as a search engine. I would definitely feel naked without Google.

  2. Bret said,

    on August 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    Just a brief follow-up. As it stands right now, The Search, from John Battelle is the better book of the two. His book is not so much about how Google got started but more about the bigger picture of “search” as it applies to the Internet. Battelle just happened to frame the whole discussion around Google because it is the dominant search engine on the Internet today. Definitely worth the read.

    I’ll be doing a more complete review when I return from vacation.

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