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Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by randomdata »

bnegreve wrote: post #17
wintorez wrote: post #9

Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.

I don't know .. is it that more of these questions get answered, or that when one of these questions gets an answer, we all learn about it?

If more questions are answered, is it because of the internet or is there some other factor like people having more time to answer questions?

It's not like the internet wasn't alive and well 20 years ago. Hell, Stack Exchange is little more than Usenet, and that was in use over 40 years ago.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by weinzierl »

bnegreve wrote: post #17
wintorez wrote: post #9

Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.

I don't know .. is it that more of these questions get answered, or that when one of these questions gets an answer, we all learn about it?

As someone old enough to have had a glimpse of the time before the internet I'd say definitely the former. The fact that almost everyone can find the answer to almost anything in almost no time is a historic break that in my opinion is hardly to underestimate. Of course it didn't solve all our problems and brought a couple of new ones with it.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by lamontcg »

weinzierl wrote: post #23
bnegreve wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know .. is it that more of these questions get answered, or that when one of these questions gets an answer, we all learn about it?

As someone old enough to have had a glimpse of the time before the internet I'd say definitely the former. The fact that almost everyone can find the answer to almost anything in almost no time is a historic break that in my opinion is hardly to underestimate. Of course it didn't solve all our problems and brought a couple of new ones with it.

Yet its so weird that with all that information at our disposal that so few people bother to look things up.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by rendall »

wintorez wrote: post #9

Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.

> 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered.

Maybe, but she also would not have had access herself to the internet, and so a series of numbers like this would have been related to a book in the house or local library or at worst a TV show that others would have seen, and therefore much easier to find.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by wpietri »

rendall wrote: post #25
wintorez wrote: post #9

Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.

> 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. Maybe, but she also would not have had access herself to the internet, and so a series of numbers like this would have been related to a book in the house or local library or at worst a TV show that others would have seen, and therefore much easier to find.

Maybe you grew up after the age of the newspaper and the magazine, but this sort of ephemeral content was quite common in disposable media.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by wpietri »

nsoonhui wrote: post #16

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Sigh. I am going to spend too much of the rest of my life squinting at glib, confident prose and trying to figure out whether it makes any sense at all. “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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