I was using yahoo. I heard about google trough osmosis; a slightly more tech-savvy friend (read: hipster, bleeding edge, too good for you, blablabla) who began to use google and Wikipedia a lot.

Fun fact, until I looked it up myself, I thought Wikipedia was the stupidest possible thing: a pretentious encyclopedia for wiccans because they knew better than everyone else what was real. That probably says a lot about the people I knew at the time.