What were you doing in 2001?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Google has made its 2001 search index available. [via E-Tech]
In 2001, I started my current job, which resulted my my first real web presence, courtesy of a profile page in our staff directory. (I tried to see what my profile looked like in 2001, but it isn’t accessible via the Wayback Machine. We do have a long-standing web presence, dating back to the pre-Google era.) A 2001 search on my name doesn’t find me on the first page (though with a little more searching I was able to find a mention of me); searching now reveals several pages about or by me, as well as a lot of other Tara Murrays.
I was just starting to think about a blog in 2001. (DIY Librarian made its debut in 2003.) I was probably starting to search on DIY Librarian to see if it was taken yet.
While I was indulging my internet nostalgia, I came across a newsletter my center produced in 1999. It has a section about the library. What were we doing back then? Showing off our catalog. Discussing the pros and cons of distributing working papers online. Teaching an introduction to online literature searching.
What did I do today? Demo our catalog. Encourage people to submit working papers. Teach an introduction to literature searching.
The more things change…







