Obsolete Skills

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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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Oh man, a couple weeks ago my internet access was down due to a line fault. Aside from not getting my daily poker fix, the worst thing was wondering about something, be it a film, history, a phrase's etymology or any number of things, and not being able to just run to the computer and google it. It felt like part of my brain was missing.