Wikipedia

[joshkassel]

Damn kids today get to turn to Wikipedia for an answer to every dumb question they have. When I was a kid, we didn't have Wikipedia. No... We had to walk to the library and look up the answers to questions we had in an ENCYCLOPEDIA. If kids today had to do that every time they had something stupid to ask they would ask a lot less stupid questions.

Comments

[superdaintykate]

Allow me to share a post with you from my Disney fan board.

"I'm in high school and I'm doing a research report on jobs at Disneyland. I have all the basic information about the various jobs and such, but I've only gotten info from online sources. I need to have information from at least on book, encyclopedia entry, and newspaper article. Anyone know where I can find them??"

cough

When asked where she'd looked she said she had Googled "'Disneyland job books' a thousand times" and hadn't found anything.

I weep. Need I mention she attends a charter home school?

[joshkassel]

She attends a charter home school. She has a book: Th' Bibul

[cynna66]

I would like to say that kids would still ask the stupid questions with the same frequency, but they would get answered a lot less. =)