There is a generation of mystery novels from like 1995 to 2005 that are completely unreadable because the author has to spend whole pages explaining search engines.
“...and then he powered up his compaq computer and used a Web Browser to navigate to the Alta Vista Online Search Engine.”
"There was a small text box in the center of the screen. He sipped his coffee as he moved his cursor over this box and left-clicked the mouse..."
“He knew the information would be somewhere on the World Wide Web if only he could find it. But his first search on www dot ask Jeeves dot com returned upwards of 4000 results. This was going to take all day.
@Excuse_haver @taweret I have a sister who used to work for ask.com. She's not sure how people got her number, but she regularly answered phone calls from people who wanted to speak with Jeeves.
@neal @Excuse_haver @taweret "buddy, they won't even let ME speak with Jeeves"
@technomancy @neal @taweret Lol. some old white lady demanding to speak with Jeeves because the computer program won’t show her her grandson.
@neal @Excuse_haver @taweret they looked it up on ask jeeves