When I was a teenager I’d write down questions that occurred to me throughout the day in an agenda, so I would be able to look them up next time I went to the library. I still did the same when we got internet - I’d have a list of things to search at home that evening.
Now we have the bulk of human knowledge at our fingertips and we use it to get likes and followers.
The death-grip
“No, like, you literally won’t believe it. Your kids will have access to most of the breadth of human knowledge, and you’re still gonna remain convinced that chemtrails are turning the frogs gay.”
…we knew then that god had truly abandoned us
The breadth of human knowledge, and you’re still gonna remain convinced that your genocidal imaginary friend is real…
I’m confused by your comment. Did you mean “they’re still gonna” ?
Yes, but I was playing off the wording of the quote. I was not referring to you in particular. 🙂
Gotcha, gotcha. Carry on my friend
Maybe giving the village idiot the ability to broadcast their conspiracies at the click of a button was a bad idea. Back in the day you at least had to know HTML and have entertaining gifs if you were spreading misinformation.
Dude AM radio let that one out of the box
You just unlocked a deeply suppressed memory.
There was nothing else but art bell on at night to listen to and honestly, he was interesting to listen to in the early years
So the free exchange of information and ideas is a bad thing? Hmmm
I think it’s the ease at which it’s doable is a bad thing. Making it so easy as to allow every soup brained dipshit to throw out their every thought was probably a bad thing.
GeoCities would like a word.
They had a pretty decent web-based WYSIWYG for the time.
mom, what’s an anal prolapse?
“Just google it”
“Mom, you told me all women have pubes.”
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes.
Mom, who is Mr Hands?
You got that backwards. “Mom doesn’t know what an anal prolapse is.”
“Hah fkn n00b.”
C64 with a disk drive, a tape drive, a monitor and a printer? These guys were loaded.
hey dad I found a recipe to make crystals in the bathroom!
Its on the math forum.
I mean, that’s how it was originally sold. I think it was '95 and we were watching ‘CNN in the Classroom’ I think, and we saw something about how you could use the internet to see photos from some art museum. Basically, experience the museum without having to go there! My teacher was like, “Well, I think we have access to the internet, let’s try it out”. It was slow, but yeah, we got to see some stuff at like dial-up speeds. I remember when they talked about virtual shops and what that might look like (which was oftem more a virtual representation of the store than the grids we have today). Kids in my class back then were getting better grades simply because they had a proper printer, word processor, and information (probably Encarta 95 or something like it). My stuff was hand-written, or I used a typewriter, grammar and spelling mistakes everywhere, and I had to go to the public library (where I think they literally copy pasted some stuff and turned it in… it was the 90’s)
Jar go crunch
