Obsolete Skills

[El Diablo]

Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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[theblitz]

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[Event Duality]

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"Leveling" people still seems to be alive and well, though.

[Ron Burgundy]

Remembering which positions the TV antenna should be for every station. Oh wait... my parents still do this lol.

[TheMetetron]

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Remembering which positions the TV antenna should be for every station. Oh wait... my parents still do this lol.

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Hot damn I remember doing this and I now feel very old. Or maybe it was just that my ass was poor as a chid. We used to use a rooftop antenna for the main tv and I had [censored] bunny ears in my room. I hated having to fight for the big tv in order to watch certain channels (lol there were like 5 channels).

The day we got cable (illegal ldo) was the best day of my life.

[jeffnc]

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Not of mentioning spelling.

[.Alex.]

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Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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This still applies for research on the internet!

How about all that time they spent teaching us to write in cursive in elementary school?

[Dominic]

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Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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I always enjoyed going to the library and doing research...it was like I was solving a mystery...

I remember writing a screenplay that took place in the Amazon among El Dorado and The Lost City of Gold - beforehand, I had to do a lot of research on the subject matter. I got to go to the Library of Congress in DC and search to my heart's content.

Research always helped me come up with plot points and surprising facts I could then put in my screenplays.

I miss it.

[ahnuld]

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Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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