google, both blessing and curse
Jan. 20th, 2007 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireI truly can't remember what it was like to live in a world without the internet, Google, Wikipedia and the eight billion other convenient ways to find the most trivial pieces of information. It allowed me to immediately find the name of the weird late 80's sitcom involving Snow White transported into the modern world. (Incidentally, it was The Charmings and it only ran from '87 to '88.) I can also learn the location of the Chelyabinsk Shagol airport (55°15′36″N, 061°18′0″E if you're interested however Google lacks any satellite pictures of said place.) I also learned that the principal of my elementary school in Austin is still the principal. Too weird. Though all the other teachers I remember are gone.
I lie. I actually can remember having to look things up in encyclopedias, and being jealous of a kid down the street who had a pretty recent set.
The one thing I haven't been able to figure out though is the title of this weird educational video I saw in third or fourth grade about teaching us the Dewey decimal system. It was vaguely futuristic, and I think there might have been aliens or robots involved. The kids had to solve some kind of puzzle and needed information. They had to learn the decimal system to find stuff in the library where they were hiding out. I can't remember what this was called, and most people look at me like I'm crazy when I describe it.
I lie. I actually can remember having to look things up in encyclopedias, and being jealous of a kid down the street who had a pretty recent set.
The one thing I haven't been able to figure out though is the title of this weird educational video I saw in third or fourth grade about teaching us the Dewey decimal system. It was vaguely futuristic, and I think there might have been aliens or robots involved. The kids had to solve some kind of puzzle and needed information. They had to learn the decimal system to find stuff in the library where they were hiding out. I can't remember what this was called, and most people look at me like I'm crazy when I describe it.