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Back in my day (lemy.lol)
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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.”

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 10 months ago

I learned C++ from a book I borrowed from the library.

[-] Wollang@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Oh Borders, how I miss you

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I like Schengen too

[-] burrito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

They were the only company that made price stickers that could be easily removed. Nobody else can figure it out.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

So many goddamn oreilly perl books. Where did they all go?

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