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Yes, you're right, BUT finding stuff wasn't always the primary use case in the internet before google.

Many people traversed around from Links section to Links section, or around web rings as their primary use case.

Web sites were connected as trees and rings as opposed to a few central hubs.

This is why the term "surfing the web" used to be much more germane. Today, we don't surf much: we simply target information and acquire it. Or we check daily aggregators/social networks.