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In reply to the discussion: Ok, age check, who remembers? [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,972 posts)270. Will we ever be allowed to build anything this beautiful again? It's OK to spend trillions
on weapons of war, no problem to give billions in tax breaks for profitable corporations, but millions on a beautiful public building? Fox Noise will never let it happen again.
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i typed all those cards four to five per item for 25 years after teaching all day to help my
roguevalley
Mar 2014
#240
I got a lot of them in electronic form since I have nowhere to put them
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2014
#15
It's also easier when you move too! We just moved enough books to sink the Titanic. And then
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#228
The Dewey Decimal system is still the system of organization in libraries, of course.
maddiemom
Mar 2014
#102
I've still got mine, but fell in love with TI's SR-10 when it came out. I still have it someplace.
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#18
"Thanks for lending me your calculator. Now where's the @#%$* equal sign, smartass???"
GliderGuider
Mar 2014
#282
It was similar at the Library of Congress. I used to get a bunch of stuff at one time, so
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#26
That makes good sense, of course, but it kind of takes the mystery of touch out of it ... n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#48
OMG, so many times I typed a stupid page over again because of too many mistakes. n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#37
My dad did the same. I was in the sciences in high school and was headed off to
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#225
I used to manage to smear the carbon onto my fingers and somehow ever so gracefully smear
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#202
Yeah, it was a state of the art typewriter, and then Xerox and white out came out
Cleita
Mar 2014
#217
I had one of those as a portable, a manual Smith Corona typewriter. Was I ever glad
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#233
Well yeah, that too. Too brief to qualify as a "high," however. The ink remover thing
maddiemom
Mar 2014
#205
Journalists used Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature for double super secret background research
Brother Buzz
Mar 2014
#16
I spent years sitting on the floor or standing in libraries at home and overseas
malaise
Mar 2014
#24
LOL, I discovered that when I first found DU. All the weird kids got together! And I said
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#238
Money for funding libraries is disappearing. Budget cuts have caused our library to
Cleita
Mar 2014
#42
Beautiful! Those pictures brought back so many memories of my days at the LC as a student. n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#43
I lived in D.C. for years in my youth. I've been to many places. Somehow, in my youth, I
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#84
Will we ever be allowed to build anything this beautiful again? It's OK to spend trillions
Dark n Stormy Knight
Mar 2014
#270
I was born in 1983 but depended on prehistoric googling for my MA thesis.
Democracyinkind
Mar 2014
#31
I wonder if eons from today DU will be a prehistoric find to savor, lol. Yes, I agree
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#71
Haha, my college library had two floors Dewey Decimal and two floors Library of Congress!
Sancho
Mar 2014
#55
I miss the card catalogs. Finding a book was so quick and easy. Not so any more.
Paper Roses
Mar 2014
#60
OOo Dewy decimal and LCC woot woot...did my undergraduate thesis research at LC
Drew Richards
Mar 2014
#92
And how. I actually rather enjoyed filing back when I was younger. But not now.
JDPriestly
Mar 2014
#98
Our state historical library still has a card catalog in addition to the digital search.
Sognefjord
Mar 2014
#103
H.G. Wells had the right idea about pathogens imagine any alien or human exposed to alien pathogens.
gordianot
Mar 2014
#183
Even if an alien culture were able able to travel here strong odds are we are toxic.
gordianot
Mar 2014
#186
We used to get lots of mystery meet with brown gravy on it, with a side dish of
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#236
We used to get something else about once per week. I guess it was some kind of
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#288
Not only do I remember those, but despite not having used it in years, I still recall 920
ET Awful
Mar 2014
#122
I'm old enough to remember all the things mentioned in this thread so far, but I don't get the color
kath
Mar 2014
#271
I constructed and produced (read: typed) catalogue cards as cataloger in the 70's.
No Vested Interest
Mar 2014
#171
No need for envy - the pay wasn't that great. - just pin money really.
No Vested Interest
Mar 2014
#175
I bought one of those...lol. It's been sitting in my cellar for about 10 years while I try to
seaglass
Mar 2014
#173
I remember those, carbon paper, manual typewriters, real ink pens: the age of paper
northoftheborder
Mar 2014
#193
I feel sorry for all the people who never had to go through those catalogs to hunt down
Baitball Blogger
Mar 2014
#229
Ahhhhh, the smell of fresh mimeographed copies!!! I still remember well in grade school, we
RKP5637
Mar 2014
#234
The card catalog was digital by the time I was using it, but I still made much use of the library...
Hippo_Tron
Mar 2014
#242
You know, I am almost 50 and I find the new way of googling so much more efficient
tandot
Mar 2014
#256
Microfiche, 8mm movies, slide projectors, dittos and transparency overheads. I remember them all
Nanjing to Seoul
Mar 2014
#260
Yes, that's how I got through college. That, and reading the Congressional Record in the library
R B Garr
Mar 2014
#272
I wasn't born yet!!!! But seriously, finding the book I want on a computer just doesn't compare.
DesertDiamond
Mar 2014
#273