As late as the 2000s. The internet didn’t always have the content it does now. News agencies took a long time to adopt it. Publications scientific or otherwise weren’t all published online. Content aggregators hadn’t scraped and indexed it all. Random pseuds hadn’t social media profiles to digest and spit out their takes on it. None of that existed which has led us to this point where internet arguments are two doofuses frantically dumping the results of that on each other.
Believe or not. Once upon a time not long ago people on the internet didn’t know everything. And generally they didn’t pretend to. Much less get into the modern day logical fallacy warfare while firing volleys of “sources” at each other.
As a user of the internet and telnet in the 80s, this was also the case back then. But also, sharing the entire sources and sharing knowledge was the primary use.
This is internet arguments now
Sure but when hasn’t it been?
As late as the 2000s. The internet didn’t always have the content it does now. News agencies took a long time to adopt it. Publications scientific or otherwise weren’t all published online. Content aggregators hadn’t scraped and indexed it all. Random pseuds hadn’t social media profiles to digest and spit out their takes on it. None of that existed which has led us to this point where internet arguments are two doofuses frantically dumping the results of that on each other.
Believe or not. Once upon a time not long ago people on the internet didn’t know everything. And generally they didn’t pretend to. Much less get into the modern day logical fallacy warfare while firing volleys of “sources” at each other.
I dunno the 80s?
As a user of the internet and telnet in the 80s, this was also the case back then. But also, sharing the entire sources and sharing knowledge was the primary use.