> But as with any "beginning" of a long, diffuse process, people might quibble about the specifics. Yeah, absolutely. But for the web, at least for my daily us

> But as with any "beginning" of a long, diffuse process, people might quibble about the specifics. Yeah, absolutely. But for the web, at least for my daily use of it, this was the first big "shift". Learning how something was spelled by someone googling it and quoting the number of results to the others.. good times. And you can no longer find out what the page with highest page rank says about "pizza" regardless of where YOU happen to be.