In, 1991, I was in middle school!! Jenny shared this awesome historical info about the internet, which is the earliest statement I’ve seen that could be reworded as “We need to invent Google”!
1991 outline of the web’s “Resource Discovery Problem”
… which as we know went unsolved for quite a while. Outlined here in 1991 http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/KeepingTrack.html
“The Resource Discovery Problem” is the answer to the World’s 2nd ever FAQ on the worlds first ever web page (http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)
This very first answer points to what we now know was the Resource Discovery solution:
“By the way, it would be easy in principle for a third party to run over these trees and make indexes of what they find. Its just that noone has done it as far as I know because there isn’t yet an indexer which runs over the web directly […] In the long term, when there is a really large mass of data out there, with deep interconnections, then there is some really exciting work to be done on automatic algorithms to make multi-level searches.”
