After reading pdfs for a few years one day I bought a physical book. I remember looking at the corner of the page for time and thinking about CTRL-Fing for something.
I caught what must have been the last itty bitty tail of that. I was a 3rd grader in 1993 and were taught all about the card catalog and the Dewey decimal system and taking notes on note cards and organizing them in notecard boxes and how important it all was for research. I'm glad we moved on from that. For me, it was a drag.
Yes, I remember them but also observe that we’ve moved on from those trays of cards in narrow drawers systems (and good riddance!).
Those cards are no replacement for literal grep, of course. They were a search across a tiny summary of the contents, albeit a fairly structured one (which is helpful for some searches).
