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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 24, 2020 18:21:34 GMT
There are many wonderful things on the internet, and it can really make some painstaking things of the past, happen painlessly now. But as I tell my kids NOT everything is on the internet, in fact, much isn't. Good research means going deep, hitting the books, periodicals, etc., of the time. University libraries are all online now. You can access the most amazing amount of stuff and go as deep as you want. Correct: (1) if they scanned it in; (2) If you have access; (3) but even then there were so many obscure periodicals and newspapers that someone would have to remember to care about scanning in, and that costs money.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Dec 24, 2020 18:27:57 GMT
University libraries are all online now. You can access the most amazing amount of stuff and go as deep as you want. Correct: (1) if they scanned it in; (2) If you have access; (3) but even then there were so many obscure periodicals and newspapers that someone would have to remember to care about scanning in, and that costs money. And you’d still need the internet to find them since most libraries have destroyed their card catalogs.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Dec 24, 2020 18:30:33 GMT
It amazes me sometimes to think that my band booked a couple short tours through the States in the 90’s without the internet, just some phone numbers and addresses shared by other bands who had already played in the same places we wanted to. Why is that amazing though? In and of itself it’s not amazing, but it amazes me that we did it that way. Nowadays I’d be street-viewing the venue and neighbourhood, reading reviews of the place and doing some advance ‘press’ with the benefit of the internet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 18:58:50 GMT
Why is that amazing though? In and of itself it’s not amazing, but it amazes me that we did it that way. Nowadays I’d be street-viewing the venue and neighbourhood, reading reviews of the place and doing some advance ‘press’ with the benefit of the internet. I see what you're saying. A lot of spontaneity has been lost.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 19:06:12 GMT
You had to go round someone's house and ask their mum if they were in pre internet, amazing. Debates and or facts needed to be settled by someone saying I have to take my books back to the library and I will look it up. The change that the online world has made is seismic and was quick to happen.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 24, 2020 19:10:30 GMT
I can’t spell anymore
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 24, 2020 19:11:10 GMT
we've noticed
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 24, 2020 19:24:59 GMT
I can still smell bullshit though
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 24, 2020 19:27:18 GMT
But, seriously, I can’t be the only one
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 19:28:36 GMT
You had to go round someone's house and ask their mum if they were in pre internet, amazing. All Alexander Bell's efforts were obviously in vain!
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Post by oh oooh on Dec 24, 2020 19:30:19 GMT
You had to go round someone's house and ask their mum if they were in pre internet, amazing. All Alexander Bell's efforts were obviously in vain! They were for YOU, G! still using semaphore until 1994
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2020 19:34:14 GMT
All Alexander Bell's efforts were obviously in vain! They were for YOU, G! still using semaphore until 1994 I use a phone all the time, but only when I'm stationary!
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 24, 2020 19:34:56 GMT
But, seriously, I can’t be the only one But why, because of internet?
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Post by oh oooh on Dec 24, 2020 19:37:04 GMT
We're writing more than we were 30, 40 years ago
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Post by Sneelock on Dec 24, 2020 22:14:24 GMT
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