What, There was a time Before Google?

This morning as I was preparing to teach a group of fifth graders something dawned on me. These kids, nine and ten years old, don't remember a time before Google existed. This realization shocked me. Today I asked these kids how they think people might have looked something up BG. One responded by looking in files. I had to explain that people didn't have access to much of the information that they needed to learn because in order to have the information in a file you must have known it at one time. Another suggested that you could have looked the information up on an EReader. Today's kids don't know what it would have been like to live before an advanced state of the web. I'm not sure why I'm so amazed with this obvious realization; but, I am.