When Gianluigi Buffon made his professional debut for Parma in November 1995, most of his new teammates weren't even born. If I'd wanted to check that fact on the internet back then, I couldn't Google it: I'd need to use a search engine like WebCrawler (it's still around, in case you want to go old school) on a browser like Mosaic and hope that someone had uploaded the birth dates of players somewhere on the nascent worldwide web since, obviously, football clubs didn't have websites. (Their first form of technology was end-of-season DVDs.
Buffon returns to Parma at 43: Why Italy's goalkeeping legend went back to where his career began
