So long Jeeves and Ask.com, relics of yesterday’s Internet

The death of Ask.com is, perhaps, a Rorschach test for our current digital crossroads: proof of the internet’s unyielding change-or-die law, or the decay of a simpler digital time. — Photo by Michael Dolejš on Unsplash

In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions.

He told us about Britney Spears, tamagotchis, former President George W Bush and Beanie Babies. We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace.