The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that now, like so many other relics of yesterday's Internet, Jeeves -- and his home, Ask.com -- are no more. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe reports that after almost 30 years, the Q&A service and former search engine shuttered Friday. "To you -- the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world -- thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust," the company said on its now-defunct Website. The death of Ask.com is, perhaps, a Rorschach test for our current digital crossroads: proof of the Internet's unyielding change-or-die law, or the decay of a simpler digital time. Before Claude Code, Grok and Gemini, Jeeves was there in a modest, everyman suit. We conversed with him in full sentences and asked him whole questions. We knew him. We believed him. Created in Berkeley, Calif., in the days of the dot-com gold rush, Ask Jeeves first appeared on computer screens in 1996. The pioneering, quirky Q&A search engine was the brainchild of founders David Warthen and Garrett Gruener. The quality of responses was inconsistent, leading to the Website being overshadowed by Google and Yahoo as the top search engines.