Comments on: Researching - then and now http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:48:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Josh http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16610 Josh Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:52:28 +0000 http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16610 Nils: "In general, though, I try to blank the pre-internet era from my mind. It was a dark and gloomy period." Hah! :) Luckily I didn't have to endure much of it at all. I can barely - and I really do mean barely - remember a time when I didn't have the intarweb, but it's a very, very brief speck of time in my memory. I think we had internet by the time I was 11 or so. Nils: “In general, though, I try to blank the pre-internet era from my mind. It was a dark and gloomy period.” Hah! :) Luckily I didn’t have to endure much of it at all. I can barely - and I really do mean barely - remember a time when I didn’t have the intarweb, but it’s a very, very brief speck of time in my memory. I think we had internet by the time I was 11 or so.

]]> By: Nils http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16375 Nils Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:46:57 +0000 http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16375 Old as I am, I do remember indexing cards from my childhood. In college, things had improved of course, with most academic material already digitized (not much content yet, though, nor meta data or tags). In general, though, I try to blank the pre-internet era from my mind. It was a dark and gloomy period. Sometimes, I even fail to imagine what the mid-nineties internet looked like. AltaVista on Netscape Navigator? Ouch. Old as I am, I do remember indexing cards from my childhood. In college, things had improved of course, with most academic material already digitized (not much content yet, though, nor meta data or tags).

In general, though, I try to blank the pre-internet era from my mind. It was a dark and gloomy period.

Sometimes, I even fail to imagine what the mid-nineties internet looked like. AltaVista on Netscape Navigator? Ouch.

]]> By: Josh http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16332 Josh Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:24:45 +0000 http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16332 Joshua: Yeah, it is hard to imagine. I can't say I've ever really wondered about who came up with the Slinky, but I get what you're saying. ;) I remember card files - vaguely - from my very early school years. I remember them being in the library, and I remember being told about them, but I don't actually remember ever using the things. I think our middle school library was so small, it was basically easier to just walk through the stacks than bother with the card files. Joshua: Yeah, it is hard to imagine. I can’t say I’ve ever really wondered about who came up with the Slinky, but I get what you’re saying. ;)

I remember card files - vaguely - from my very early school years. I remember them being in the library, and I remember being told about them, but I don’t actually remember ever using the things. I think our middle school library was so small, it was basically easier to just walk through the stacks than bother with the card files.

]]> By: Joshua J. Slone http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16303 Joshua J. Slone Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:54:45 +0000 http://system13.org/2007/10/03/researching-then-and-now/#comment-16303 A) It's hard to imagine how inconvenient finding anything out was before the Internet. Dozens of times a week I'm looking up some little thing. Who was that in that show? What other books did this guy write? What does the appendix do? Who came up with the Slinky? All taking little more work than a snap of the fingers to find out. B) Oh man, card files! That brings back elementary school memories, though during my time there was a transition to a computer search. A) It’s hard to imagine how inconvenient finding anything out was before the Internet. Dozens of times a week I’m looking up some little thing. Who was that in that show? What other books did this guy write? What does the appendix do? Who came up with the Slinky? All taking little more work than a snap of the fingers to find out.

B) Oh man, card files! That brings back elementary school memories, though during my time there was a transition to a computer search.

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