What I Like

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

I like libraries.

The internet's great if you want secondhand information. If it's a subject I care about, I'd much rather get it from the source.

Libraries are pretty great for that!

Also: free audiobooks, dvd rentals, graphic novels, and thousands of books I can read without having to throw down a penny for.

All internet all the time is just ig'nant. Read a motherfuckin' book.

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This. And my first job was at a library.

Let's talk about primary and secondary sources!

There needs to be a new category of "source" invented that means "some info that's been dumbed-down, cut down, rehashed and telephoned through the internet until it has lost 90% of its value"

I still think it's dumb to underestimate the potential for using the internet as a research tool. You can't be dumb about it and not fact check, but fuck the haters for the most part.

If you can't afford the internet, you can afford the library.

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Originally Posted by Pineapple

This. And my first job was at a library.

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Did you have sex with a bearded gentleman in the microfiche room?

I did. But I didn't work there.

:lol:

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Originally Posted by Mr-K

I still think it's dumb to underestimate the potential for using the internet as a research tool. You can't be dumb about it and not fact check, but fuck the haters for the most part.

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Fuck the you, for the most part! Some snickers bar eater's Geocities page Is Not better than the book he's plagiarizing from, I'm sorry.

At very least check up on the internet source's source.

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Originally Posted by Mr-K

I often think of what a pre-internet collegiate experience would be like. No aim, no online journal databases. Doing actual book research and fact checking, spell checking, and typing papers would be a gargantuan bitch.

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I went to a college with 50 slots for dial up internet access. Everyone on campus had to compete for those slots. It was fucking horrible. This was also 1998, so even if you could get on the internet it was pretty much worthless, unless you were looking for porn... and even that was significantly more difficult. Our computer lab had dot matrix printers, and no one brought a laptop to class.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Fuck the you, for the most part! Some snickers bar eater's Geocities page Is Not better than the book he's plagiarizing from, I'm sorry.

At very least check up on the internet source's source.

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I'm not saying that you should go around dilly dallying about on some dude's Civil War tripod page and take it for fact, or use Wikipedia as a primary source. BUT, I have used wikipedia as a starting point for finding actual sources for things and explored from there.

Come on there are legit articles, studies and all sorts of bullshit on the internet. I'm not saying to burn down libraries, far from it, but I'm saying that it's silly to write off the entire internet as a source for research.

When I went to a college, we had one cup of soup. And everyone on campus had to share. It was horrible, dagnabit. This was also nineteen and dickity-eight, so even if you could get a spoon of soup, it was pretty much worthless, unless you had salt... and even that was significantly less tasty. Our shoe shine boy had one can of shine, And it was black. So if you had white shoes, now they were grey...