Quick anecdote from Saturday. As I sat in the press box at the Texas-Oklahoma game Saturday, I caught up with a bunch of sportswriters I hadn’t seen in forever: Kevin Sherrington, Brad Townshend, Barry Horn. We all work for the same newspaper, but the sports-reporting world and the education-reporting world rarely intersect. (Except for high school sports, but that’s not these gentlemen’s area of labor.)

The last time I’d spent much time with these guys was back in 2002, when I covered the Salt Lake City Olympics with all three. But I was writing news/culture/terrorism/non-sports stories, so our paths only intersected tangentially. Anyway, I went up to Barry Saturday and reintroduced myself with a “I’m not sure you remember me, but…”

“Of course I remember you,” Barry said. “I’ll always remember you. You were the guy who introduced me to Google.”

(Ah, for the days of Altavista and Hotbot and Lycos and all the other sub-Googles.)

09 October 2006

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12 October | 23:03 | ckstern

'tis a great thing to have been the person to introduce someone else to google. I remember back to those days when I would passionately explain to anyone who would listen that Alta Vista was head and shoulders above any search engine and I was fiercely loyal to it.

Sadly, that was far from the dumbest or wrongest thing I said in college...

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