Before the Internet, an investigator might have to hand-search thousands of archives, travel to many different cities, and follow thousands of leads to accumulate the data necessary to unravel Kerry's complex web of lies. Even after all the data was collected, the investigator would have to untangle, analyze and interpret all the data, then write a report or book, and then try to get it through the mass media gatekeepers. "What are the odds?" the young Kerry must have asked himself.
Now we have the Internet and the almost instant access to information and thousands of minds concentrating on mining, accumulating, analyzing and publishing it. Kerry must really be pissed at Al Gore and his confounded invention.