The history of drilling as found online is the subject of this "Smart Business" column.
For a wordsmith like me, no modern tool has changed the world as much as the Internet. It's staggering to contemplate the amount of information available to all of us just a few mouse clicks away. When I started my career decades ago, I used to spend many hours at a local library researching background information for articles I'd write. With the Internet, information that used to take me hours to track down now takes minutes. And, I can print it out in a fraction of the time I used to spend fumbling around with big books and photocopy machines.