When was the last time search engine found no results for you?

When I first contacted with the Internet around 1995, the only company is still heard of was Yahoo. Google? Bing? Never would I expect such names, but they sure are around us now.

It’s either you get something or nothing when you search. You don’t need to think about how to search, just put in keywords. Nowadays, you get pages after pages, and probably couldn’t find the one you are looking for. Desperate after three pages of search results, ever seen that image?

Back then, it’s when Yahoo was a search engine. That was when numbers meant something, 123 results and you got 123 results. A program was a thing running on your computer, either it ran or crashed.

Yes was yes, no was no, and social was real interaction between humans.

Nothing was needed for pages of confusing permission settings, which gives you 10 checkboxes, 5 drop-down menus, plus 7 slider with a few other fancy controls.

The help web pages which just couldn’t seem to give you a definitive answer, after you spend fifteen minutes reading 3 pages and skimming through 5 others.

No so-called community support, no guessing responses from other confused users, but directly clear answer from the employee of the company.

It was a simple time, and a good one.