Google has released a version of it's search engine from back in 2001:

http://www.google.com/search2001.html


Let's see what we can find.

A little glimpse of the way the org was back then...

2001:Results 1 - 10 of about 771 for barack obama
2008:Results 1 - 10 of about 77,000,000 for barack obama


There's some things I just don't know how we dealt with back then:

http://www.google.com/search2001/sea...en&btnG=Search