Google’s 10 Years Old!

Oh my goodness, Google is celebrating its 10 year birthday!

What has this got to do with freelance writing? I don’t know. What’ I am sure of though is that google has become an integral part of my writing life and the rest of my life. I use it to:

• check my spelling
• research facts for my ghostwriting
• find appropriate quotes for my ghostwriting and my own writing
• find a restaurant for my master mind group
• locate stores
• locate bookstores
• find my way and give others directions with google maps

There’s more, but you get the idea.

What tickles me though, is there time line – after all, I was there. Not at google, but in 1995 I was one of match.com’s first 20 or 30 employees and my job was writing for them. That gig was followed by several silicon valley writing gigs. It was an exciting time. The ‘net and all it might bring was in the air. I had recognized the web as a publishing medium and learned html before there were html editors. (I quickly moved to editors because I kept reversing brackets!)

You can imagine I’m having fun wandering through google’s time line, seeing what I remember and what I missed.

How about you? Do you have some early ‘net stories to tell?

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