Took search for granted. It was such an early Internet before Google. "Surfing" and "downloading" were concepts to learn. Dial-up required a credit card.

LLMs are this generation's search, but I don't remember search being so reviled. Search opened a door to possibilities. If search were so resisted back then, it would have been a project to recreate the implementation. What did I know back then?

It may have paid off in terms of what is learned making a game versus playing one.

I just accepted search as the thing to do.