Per von Zweigbergk wrote:

>
> Of course, I very well see your point from a *pragmatic* point of view, but
> consider the irony in bashing a web browser project for making the exact same
> mistake as you made, not googling for the project name before choosing.
>

Thankyou, thankyou! I've just realised why we may have missed the
Firebird BBS in a Google Search back in July 2000. It is more than
possible that Google's reach just didn't extend that far then. It
certainly wasn't the all-pervasive presence we see today - either in our
lives or in the size and geographical reach of its database.

I've just been checking back through the history of Google and it
certainly seems that the 2000/2001 time frame was when it broke through
all the competition, but my memory is hazy as to when I moved to
automatically searching Google for everything.

Our concept of 'due diligence' in summer 2000 would have been slightly
different to that of today in as much as Googling would not have been as
automatic. The fact we didn't find the Firebird BBS then is certainly
not because we didn't look hard enough.

BTW, What did we do before google? Go to libraries?


Paul
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Paul Reeves
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Supporting users of Firebird and InterBase