We've come a long way, right? Check Ars Technica's
take on how quaint the "Rough Guide to the Internet" measures up a decade later: "If you need convincing that ten years of Internet development has fundamentally reshaped the Internet, consider: Google does not appear in the Rough Guide's index. In the section on search engines, the book notes that the best are AltaVista, HotBot, and Northern Light, with HotBot the top pick."