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The Internet kinda made information collection hobbies obsolete. Before there was Wikipedia and tvtropes there were encyclopedias, collectible cards, newspaper clippings, etc. Owning and rereading them was central to nerddom. It was the only way to learned a subject.
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Things I learned by literally half-memorizing entire encyclopedia style sources: aircraft, astronomy, birds, animals, world history, history of science. I don’t think nerdy kids do that anymore. It’s all a google search away now. I have memory brain more than query brain.
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What's your take on the possibility that 100-200 years from now there will be no photographic/sound record of the post 2000 era ordinary people, nor any trace of their private communications?
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