"Oh, Garden had an internal search tool for our localized online network. I guess we didn't bother naming it. Though we didn't have 'anything we want' available on it. Just access to whatever was on the network. Though maps of major metro areas would have been there I guess."

Because Nida wasn't capable of understanding the scale of Google. At all. Sure, his world had gotten to fiberoptic cables and digital service far earlier in their timeline than Desmond's world had, but that had been a practical thing, because of the fact that radio signals hadn't worked for 17 years. There had been a drive to achieve something, and they'd managed it.