Memory lane, indeed!
For me, as well - 25 years ago, I translated the Delphi 4 version of this book to Polish - I'm happy to see that both you and Delphi are still going strong!
+: the term following must be in the text (but may be stemmed)
"": search for exactly this phrase (not stemmed)
So for example:
+hiking => a term like hike, hiking, hiker, etc. must be on the page
+"hiking" => the string "hiking" must be on the page
"hiking" trekking outdoor => look for the string "hiking" and preferably return results that contain it, though hits for trekking and outdoor (stemmed) suffice
But apparently I'm wrong, and "" and + don't mean that any longer?
That's about as user unfriendly as it gets. Such things work their way into your muscle memory and to annoy 100% of your power users for some social media play that has nothing to do with search is textbook monopolistic behavior.
I know people (me included if I'm truly honest with myself) are still peeved about Reader but Google Plus was the Search service's sharkjump for me I think.
Don't teach me how to use your engine perfectly for 20 years then change it for some half baked social thing lmao.
I hope someone got a pisstake massive raise off it so it was at least worth something to someone!
That's more a mass production thing isn't it - we had trolleys of various forms you could load your bags on to.
Strong plastics, probably made such mass production cheap enough.
People rich enough to have wheeled luggage in the past would have just used servants, it's seemingly economics rather than technology that prevented such "inventions" as attaching wheels to things permanently instead of temporarily.
A modicum of googling suggests Templar Knights had wheeled trunks in the 12th Century though.
I'm surprised this article didn't give some credit to the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is a main reason there are ramps you can use with your wheeled luggage instead of hauling it up the steps to a building entrance.
