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RULES:
BlueSky Post.
Transcript.
If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
My favorite is googling something, the first result is a reddit post asking the exact question I need answered. There is only one reply telling the OP that they could easily Google it instead of asking on Reddit.
I used to necro those old posts by replying "this is what your fucking bullshit response gets us. I googled it and ended up here reading your arrogant response instead of finding an answer."
Thank you for your service.
"if you can believe it, at one point there were no search engines, and if you wanted to know what was out there you had to get a big book that listed all the websites."
*gasp!
Proud owner of "The Internet Yellow Pages" here. I wonder if I still have my copy in storage.
There is a blast from the past. I forgot about that, thanks for the reminder.
Some images: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=internet+yellow+pages&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fd0mojqvbku741.jpg
Back in my day if you Googled failure the Whitehouse.gov webpage about George W. Bush would appear.
I remember when whitehouse.com was a porn site
If you're not using adblock, you're doing it wrong anyway.
That doesn't really help much with all the ass tier search results that are just the same terribly written/uninformative article being regurgitated :(
They're going to use the year chatGPT came out as an equivalent to how 1945 is used to calibrate radiometric tests. These days I don't trust any search result published 2022, as 95% of those first page results are ai generated garbage.
Back in my day, we had to hit Borders, Barnes & Noble, or Books-A-Million to find tech books to help us figure out what to do. Dot-com cubicle shelves always had a mini library.
O'Reilly made so much money.
I learned C++ from a book I borrowed from the library.
That’s crazy, I love Kevin Hearne I didn’t know he was on bluesky. The Iron Druid books are great
I Bing stuff and like to Edge so hard at work, that I dont even miss Google.
