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You mean a world where people still knew how to use a library catalog, still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still

You mean a world where people still knew how to use a library catalog, still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? The internet is boring. And the trash is still there. Its just become reputable instead.

linsomniac 2y ago
There's a lot to unpack here... Can you expand on how a card catalog improved the world? As a kid I used the card catalog a lot, both the physical version and the later electronic versions. Full text search definitely leads to pulling in information from a wider selection of sources. I remember a lot of stratification of news sources pre-Google (which news channel you watched, which papers/magazines you read). Did Google cause reliance on one source of information, or does Google simply exist in a world where people tend towards echo chambers? How would Alta Vista have improved that?
- jareklupinski 2y ago
  > how a card catalog improved the world i was lamenting the library recently and remembered how books were organized on shelves using the dewey decimal system this meant that if you knew of one book that has something you're looking for, you can find all the _other_ books about the same topic right next to the first book, even if you knew nothing about the contents of the related books
  - staticman2 2y ago
    Libraries still exist and sort books like that, don't they?
    - yencabulator 2y ago
      I believe the point is that the commenter wishes more things operated like that, where adjacent items were related and likely of similar quality, not just boosted with money and SEO trickery.
    - thsksbd 2y ago
      They're being ripped down and replaced by coffee shops with plugs and wifi
badpun 2y ago
> still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? I think the curious crazy tid bits are still there.

linsomniac 2y ago

There's a lot to unpack here... Can you expand on how a card catalog improved the world? As a kid I used the card catalog a lot, both the physical version and the later electronic versions. Full text search definitely leads to pulling in information from a wider selection of sources. I remember a lot of stratification of news sources pre-Google (which news channel you watched, which papers/magazines you read). Did Google cause reliance on one source of information, or does Google simply exist in a world where people tend towards echo chambers? How would Alta Vista have improved that?

jareklupinski 2y ago
> how a card catalog improved the world i was lamenting the library recently and remembered how books were organized on shelves using the dewey decimal system this meant that if you knew of one book that has something you're looking for, you can find all the _other_ books about the same topic right next to the first book, even if you knew nothing about the contents of the related books
- staticman2 2y ago
  Libraries still exist and sort books like that, don't they?
  - yencabulator 2y ago
    I believe the point is that the commenter wishes more things operated like that, where adjacent items were related and likely of similar quality, not just boosted with money and SEO trickery.
  - thsksbd 2y ago
    They're being ripped down and replaced by coffee shops with plugs and wifi

badpun 2y ago

> still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? I think the curious crazy tid bits are still there.