I'm aging myself, but I remember falling in love with AltaVists in college. I'd pick a subject I was interested in - say, x - and in one sitting I could discove

I'm aging myself, but I remember falling in love with AltaVists in college. I'd pick a subject I was interested in - say, x - and in one sitting I could discover _every_ practitioner of x on the web. And every day that part of the web would grow a little bit. Those were exciting times, when the web was growing right under your feet.