A mere 15 years ago (indeed time flies) I worked at McGraw-Hill publishing. Our best selling ‘computing book’ at the time was ‘The Internet Golden Directory’.
Hard to believe today but we printed books that were basically big stacks of Yellow Pages featuring URLs and descriptions, just so you could find stuff on the internet. It was a solid best seller for a number of years, you should have seen our warehouse whenever the new edition was published. The line extended: ‘The Internet Golden Directory for doctors, for athletes etc. etc.’
Then there was search.
And next week there will be Bing.
Take a look here, especially at the videos; Discover Bing.