How Did People Google Before the Internet?

Before this, people did a thing called "go to the library and talk to people who might know something about this". In other words, it was a real social network, not an internet one.

what is this "library" you speak of?

Can you imagine wikipedia like this?

how did old people learn anything?

after waiting 30 days to get results back, you have to send in your choice, then wait 30 more days for that page to come back