Hot take: I used to think those old 'Ask Jeeves' search results were a joke, but a 2001 forum post made me see them differently.
I was digging through an old tech help forum archive from like 2002, and someone was seriously asking how to fix a 'blue screen of death' error. The top reply, with a bunch of thanks, just said 'Ask Jeeves.' For years, I laughed at that as the dumbest, most useless advice ever. But then I read the whole thread. The original poster came back a week later and said it actually worked, because typing the exact error into Ask Jeeves led him to a Microsoft support page with the fix. It hit me that I was judging old web culture by today's standards. Back then, just telling someone *where* to look was a legit help, not a brush-off. It totally changed how I read those old 'just google it' style replies. Has anyone else found an old post that made a common joke seem way more useful in context?