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 Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:10 Post subject: Life before the internet... |
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I was just chatting with my friend from uni on msn, and we were discussing how, when we cannot solve sth from our homework, we just google it and find sth similar or sth that will help.
And then it hit me. How the fuck did the ppl (mostly our professors) pass all of this? How did they do it all? How did they manage to do it, learn, and have a life?
I know that there are books, and all, but there weren't solved problems that you could just fetch and see: oh, so I could use this trick also.
Does that mean that the newer generation is stupid or lazy, or did we just adapt to the growing availability of the information?
For everything that interests me, or I cannot understand: BAM! Google!
I mean, back in the old days they needed to go to the libraries, they had to meet in person and exchange ideas.
Today, we do it, but via e-mails and chats. But is it the same?
I'm looking at the discoveries made. And to say that today we don't make any would be idiotic. But back then (like 1920's), the discoveries weren't that fast, or complicated, but they really changed the foundation of the Earth and the society.
Today basically every day someone comes up with sth new. Whether it's in physics, or medicine or sth like that. But those discoveries are rarely: oh this will change the world fundamentally.
Some may say: but every discovery changes our world and understanding of it, and our place in it. True, but how many ppl are aware of it? How many ppl are affected by that?
Somehow I feel that this globalization is as helpful as it's dangerous.
I feel that every day we are kinda drifting away from each other as human beings.
And that feeling kinda scares me tbh.
Dunno, who knows, maybe I'm just imagining this. I'm kinda tired from working homework all the time, having no time for fun. It could be that I just need to go out and have a great time, to see that there is something else, besides sitting by the computer, calculating and learning...
Just sth that poped on my mind, and I needed to vent it out 
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:19 Post subject: |
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It's all about moderation. People spend wayy to much time on facebook >< 
Same goes for drinking alcohol. Is all good in small amounts but not in large amounts
Funny, I can download all of the books for my classes in PDF format but I still decide to buy hard cover book because I know while reading it on PC screen, I will get easily distracted and with hard cover, I can sit and just read it
I could live without internet. Had almost no internet for two months while being in Poland I must say,,, I did not pissed it at all!
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:36 Post subject: |
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Our professor gave us a lecture on this the other day. He said when he was a student in electrical engineering, you arrive at the library at 10 am, and you leave at 10 pm. You need to look anything up, you do it in the library. Every day, 4 years.
Fuck that.
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:40 Post subject: |
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| tainted4ever wrote: | Our professor gave us a lecture on this the other day. He said when he was a student in electrical engineering, you arrive at the library at 10 am, and you leave at 10 pm. You need to look anything up, you do it in the library. Every day, 4 years.
Fuck that. |
Lmao. Electrical Engineerings books like are that. I could read them all day long and still would not understand anything. |
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:42 Post subject: |
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if I sometimes go through my notes from the classes I had...I can still point out in the notes the times I wasn't present
The material is full of "holes" were I was present and very detailed where I was sleeping in my bed during a class...
rgds
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 21:46 Post subject: |
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Circuit flow is circuit flow. Either you get it or you don't.
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Dec 2011 22:21 Post subject: |
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Just so you know... the toilet (and sewer system) is one of the biggest inventions ev0r. Trivia: even today 50% of the world's population has no access to toilets. I guess making a sewer is the main problem... and earning money to make the sewer. Anyway, different topic.
And the coil of course for electricity. Fuck yeah Nikola Tesla!! They don't make 'em like that anymore on the Balkan.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 09:01 Post subject: |
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| Rofl_Mao wrote: | Just so you know... the toilet (and sewer system) is one of the biggest inventions ev0r. Trivia: even today 50% of the world's population has no access to toilets. I guess making a sewer is the main problem... and earning money to make the sewer. Anyway, different topic.
And the coil of course for electricity. Fuck yeah Nikola Tesla!! They don't make 'em like that anymore on the Balkan. |
You and your toilet humour
1 and 2 are still amazing. |
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 09:06 Post subject: |
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Life was a pain in the ass before the internet. You had to live in a library to have access to what you wanted when you wanted it. Also most libraries sucked, public all the new books would be out, the tech or science books you had to go to a uni library. Anything you found in a public library would be outdated.
..And you had to use a card catalog.
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Horrordee
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 11:16 Post subject: |
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Without the internet I would not have seen so many bitches guzzle down the jizz cup contents...
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 15:30 Post subject: |
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Internet has changed our lives much more than we think..for the better, but also for the worse.
More accessibility of knowledge and more productivity, it enhanced our way to communicate, do shopping and have fun but it also had a great impact on social behavior and interpersonal relationships in general.
If one is able to take the right dose and limit the side effects then we're in front of one of the biggest inventions ever, otherwise the addiction tunnel is right there, waiting to swallow us all xD 
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 16:10 Post subject: |
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| garus wrote: | | Without the Internet I would be jobless |
You could still develop some programs and eventually send them by airmail to some companies and see what happens |
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 17:46 Post subject: |
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There's no more original thought, everyone is guided down the same paths of thinking as others.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Dec 2011 22:05 Post subject: |
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If you could call that living 
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Dewey Decimal system was google back then. I loved Dewey..
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deelix
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Dec 2011 09:42 Post subject: |
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I remember how great LAN parties used to be before we got internet. Damnit, we played instead of chatting and playing different games as people do on LAN parties these days.
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Dec 2011 09:55 Post subject: |
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I remember that as well, great times. But when the friendships dried up, at least I had Internet. Made lots of new acquiescences via the Internet, no strings attached. Hard to say that the Internet had anything to do with my goal of isolation, but hell yeah it allowed me to.
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