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Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

it was probably something techie and boring like "usenet faqs" or "html spec" or something equally lame

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Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Cat Face Joe posted:

a million years ago, my mom announced that she had signed the two of us up for "how to search the internet" classes at the library cause she felt like she better "get on board" and it was all gopher protocol stuff for some reason. this was before google but after yahoo

libraries were really weird about the internet in the early days. a huge proportion of librarians thought searching was going to be all about doing complex boolean searches in online databases, and then filtering based on author or article title. i suppose it's just an extension of how books and academic papers are catalogued, but in hindsight it's very odd to imagine navigating the web in that way, what with the constantly changing content.

Sweevo fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Apr 6, 2023

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