There's a somewhat spotty timeline here: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html I started using Google in th

There's a somewhat spotty timeline here: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html I started using Google in the first half of 1998. When people talk about these things, I'm always shocked to learn how early to the party I appear to have been. It felt like it was already a big deal when I first saw it, maybe because it was so shocking to see that search wasn't as doomed as it had seemed to be.