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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Becoming a finely preserved 80s relic may be the key to graceful aging for me. I shall hereafter strive to properly embody and represent the spirit of that most noble of decades as a living museum. The best decade one could hope to come of age in
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I gotta start collecting notes for my memoirs. Working title: That 80s Guy. As in product of the 80s, not a prominent actor in it. Everything about the world can be explained by: you’re all just just jealous of us 80s people. We got the best of both worlds.
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The Internet enabled me to gobble up massive amounts of information, but it still lives in my brain. I would characterize the distinction more like a compression mechanism. Fine details can be discarded because there is an algorithm that can restore them with CPU cycles.
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The Internet merely universalized the transformation into McLuhan's Typographic Man. A Web of documents is not, strictly speaking, a different medium from a library. The true transformation has arrived through the algorithmic timeline, and will soon come from the Web of Data.
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