When did Google become perfect?

This problem had been bugging me for years: I couldn't figure out how to use wonderfully-modern Wordpad instead of awkwardly-ancient Notepad to edit *.bat files.

So this morning I just bit the bullet, typed my question into Google...

how do I change the default editor for batch files

Check it out, see how stupid I feel now, not at the answer, but that sometimes when I have a question

Google is not the first thing I try.

That's just dumb.

How long has this interweb been going on?