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I’m serious. Just saying: paid options like LexisNexis (and a couple others) offered online information search services that date back to the 70s.

The 90s was the advent of free World Wide Web search. It wasn’t the advent of online search engines.



I mean, card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system go back a century before that. Public libraries go back much further in different forms.

Just because you can pay for information/search, doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to get it for free.

In the context of this thread, these all feel like straw man arguments.


I wouldn't call a card catalog a search engine.


What point are you trying to make?




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