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Actually, there was an internet before Google, before Yahoo, and all of the other search engines. In fact, there was an internet before there was such a thing as web pages. People (mostly universities) had email, and newsgroups, and FTP.
Then the "world wide web" was created in 1991. So, for a very short time, the internet had all these older things, plus web pages, and no web page search engine. We used to email each other links we'd found that were interesting, and keep lists of bookmarks, and even put them on floppy disks to give to friends.
Then a couple of guys (David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford) got this idea to keep all their links on a publicly accessible web page and the idea came up with the NAME "GOOGLE"
Then the "world wide web" was created in 1991. So, for a very short time, the internet had all these older things, plus web pages, and no web page search engine. We used to email each other links we'd found that were interesting, and keep lists of bookmarks, and even put them on floppy disks to give to friends.
Then a couple of guys (David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford) got this idea to keep all their links on a publicly accessible web page and the idea came up with the NAME "GOOGLE"