Before the internet my mother wrote down things I asked about and we looked them up at the library on the weekend.
Amazing and delightful. Best mom ever.
You’d get a random call from your friend like, “Who was that actress in that ghost movie?”
“…Whoopi Goldberg?”
“THATS IT, THANKS!”
click
Huh. I would have answered Demi Moore.
Also applying more and more to life post google enshitification.
Wikipedia was The Encyclopedia Brittanica, and you bought a set of them, and the book shelf they were on, from the TV.
Part of why the economy still worked, people still needed physical things.
We uh…read books. And spread misinformation among ourselves. Good times.
Before Google people would just call the library
Before Google, I used Altavista
And now in the age of AI, we once again get to wonder.
