How did people live back then? Was all common knowledge passed down through family stories and cave drawings?
It must have been hard.
Today everything we need to know is a click away...
How did people live back then? Was all common knowledge passed down through family stories and cave drawings?
It must have been hard.
Today everything we need to know is a click away...
i'll tell you, brah, that an education actually meant something back in the day. with the ease of looking up virtually anything you want, knowledge is no longer power and a degree is just a piece of paper.
also, video games were much harder. simon's quest without a walkthrough? impossible, brah. impossible.
stuff you like to pee out wrote:
with the ease of looking up virtually anything you want, knowledge is no longer power and a degree is just a piece of paper.
That is pretty dumb. Do you really think a degree in biochemistry is worthless because someone can just look up the definition of an acid?
iron and whine wrote:
stuff you like to pee out wrote:with the ease of looking up virtually anything you want, knowledge is no longer power and a degree is just a piece of paper.
That is pretty dumb. Do you really think a degree in biochemistry is worthless because someone can just look up the definition of an acid?
Agreed.
Actually, knowledge is more powerful than ever. The information and reach of the Internet allows you to leverage your knowledge to a degree that was not possible in the past. And ignorant fools just look more ignorant than ever when quoting 'facts' that they do not understand which they gleaned from the Internet.
If you needed to look up a spelling you used a paper dictionary.
If you needed to look up something else you went to the library.
When I was doing my degree, things were handwritten and you physically went to the library to look up journal articles and if the library hadn't got the one you wanted they would send it over from another library
I guess in high school people didn't communicate by facebook or twitter. There was less pressure. No cell phones either.
Landline phones were used a lot more. People would spend ages on the phone after school (from a girl's perspective).
Lots of going around to friends after school. This was all arranged in school rather than by the phone.
If you needed information about something locally you often dropped in to find out, instead of looking it up.
In some ways it was better, in some ways not so.
iron and whine wrote:
That is pretty dumb. Do you really think a degree in biochemistry is worthless because someone can just look up the definition of an acid?
if i was motivated enough, i could learn - FOR FREE and relatively quickly - probably anything i wanted related to biochemistry.
so yes, brah, i will stand by my statement. where is your power at now?
stuff you like to pee out wrote:
iron and whine wrote:That is pretty dumb. Do you really think a degree in biochemistry is worthless because someone can just look up the definition of an acid?
if i was motivated enough, i could learn - FOR FREE and relatively quickly - probably anything i wanted related to biochemistry.
so yes, brah, i will stand by my statement. where is your power at now?
Funny how the folks with money and power are still the educated folks coming out of Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford...
...and the cute little fellows who bloviate about how they could learn anything they wanted to for free on the Internet...not so much.
Recognizer of The Obvious wrote:
Funny how the folks with money and power are still the educated folks coming out of Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford...
really, brah? it's called reputation. do you really think those schools are offering a much greater undergraduate education than all other schools across the country? don't be silly, brah.
again: reputation.
Most of the information on the internet is false. And at least half of it is porn.
Before the internet, if you wanted false information you listened to a woman, and if you wanted porn you went to 7/11.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Most of the information on the internet is false. And at least half of it is porn.
Before the internet, if you wanted false information you listened to a woman, and if you wanted porn you went to 7/11.
brah, this post is amazing. seriously. i am going to nominate this for post of the day.
congratulations.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Most of the information on the internet is false. And at least half of it is porn.
Before the internet, if you wanted false information you listened to a woman, and if you wanted porn you went to 7/11.
Lol the last sentence is very very awesome.
Those of you who are like 35+, would you rather be in the pre-internet age or this age? I think that Facebook really screws our generation up sometimes...
I'm not 35+ but I'm not in the USA and my country was later with the internet than yours (which I'm guessing was the first country in the world to have widespread internet access?).
Anyway, yeah, I don't think humans are meant to communicate in the way Facebook perpetuates. It's not natural to know that much stuff/info about someone before you talk to them about it. It's hard to say because there are some definite advantages of the internet, huge ones, but for me personally I think I'd rather be slightly pre-internet!
Local XC and track results showed up in the Sunday paper back then, but only the team scores and top-10 individuals. Something called the state honor roll came out a couple times a season to let you know what was happening across the state. And you'd wait a weeks for your copy of T+F news to come out so that you could read the national results that were outdated as soon as it was mailed.
I had no idea how run-of-the-mill my 1:58 800 was back then. It was a beautiful existence not having to bother with the realities of knowing any different.
Typewriters, white out, copiers, slide rules, slide projectors, film projectors, and pay phones.
So someone who takes free online courses from a credited college but doesn't get a degree because they didn't pay doesn't have as much knowledge as the person who did pay?
Knowledge is not more powerful than ever. If you know something that almost everybody else knows or can look up then how is that power? "Silence is knowledge and knowledge is power." Silence is pretty hard on a large scale with the internet.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Most of the information on the internet is false. And at least half of it is porn.
Before the internet, if you wanted false information you listened to a woman, and if you wanted porn you went to 7/11.
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picture we me cinnamon rollin wrote:
How did people live back then? Was all common knowledge passed down through family stories and cave drawings?
It must have been hard.
Today everything we need to know is a click away...
I don't know, but I'm sure you can Google it.
What's your address? I will write and mail my reply.
Track and Field News wrote:
Local XC and track results showed up in the Sunday paper back then, but only the team scores and top-10 individuals. Something called the state honor roll came out a couple times a season to let you know what was happening across the state. And you'd wait a weeks for your copy of T+F news to come out so that you could read the national results that were outdated as soon as it was mailed.
I had no idea how run-of-the-mill my 1:58 800 was back then. It was a beautiful existence not having to bother with the realities of knowing any different.
And sometimes, if you were lucky, full road race results were mailed out about a month after the event.
Frankly, I would have preferred putting The Ten Commandments on the internet. Bigger market.