Today I saw this link on CNN and I suddenly felt both very old and incredibly young in the same instant. Google has now been around for 10 years! I can't really imagine my life without it... I mean, I would be lost without Gmail, google docs, gchat and picasa, not to mention my new-found addiction to blogger. But seriously, what did I do when I had a question, or needed directions, or wanted to find out about a restaurant or salon before I could google it?!
I have vague recollections of "researching" a report in 3rd grade by looking up the listing for "Spain" in my Encyclopedia Britannica set. I also remember thinking that the kids with the CD-ROM version of the Encyclopedia were lucky and that the CD-ROM must have a boundless wealth of information. So, in some ways, I feel like Google has been around forever and therefore I must be old (since I can barely remember life before it). But then I think, my life has been changed this drastically in the past ten years by technology...I was still young enough when Google launched for it to completely shape my formative internet (and college) years, so I must be young and gen-Y. After all, ten years is a relatively short period of time. What will happen ten years from now?! And what will be commonplace for my kids that would just blow my mind today?
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I don't know what I would do without google either! Today I asked my mom a qt and she suggested I go to the library to look it up. I was shocked! Then I said- "I'll just google it." I dont think she knew what that meant.
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