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It's oft forgotten how much more uncertainty we lived with in the pre-internet era. Once you've gotten used to the memex it's hard to imagine life without one.
by rectang 6y ago
It's oft forgotten how much more uncertainty we lived with in the pre-internet era. Once you've gotten used to the memex it's hard to imagine life without one.
- hnick 6y agoSometimes at work over lunch we have debates or arguments that could easily be solved with a quick google but it's just more fun to let it run its course.
- ethbro 6y agoI was reminiscing the other day about the Encyclopedia Britannica set we bought when I was a child. Probably within the last 10 years dictionaries were sold. A few years later, Microsoft Encarta [0] was available on CD. And a decade later, that was gone itself because of the internet. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta