Seriously. As a young scamp of 21, I find it hard to believe that anyone got anything done in any reasonable amount of time before the existence of the internet. What did people do to obtain obscure information? The only things I can think of are 1) wade through a bunch of books at the library, *praying* that one contained the tiny piece of knowledge that you needed, or 2) to find an expert in that subject. Jeez that must have sucked.
Just as an example, say I wanted to know why some people have two differ
The library was the main soruce. Encyclopedias, card catalog, or asking the librarian. For hobbies you might join a club or subscribe to a magazine, the magazines would usually cycle through the beginner topics in about a year and a half, but this was usually intersperced with "you have to buy lots of stuff to be a real "
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Just as an example, say I wanted to know why some people have two differ
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For lots of stuff you just remained ignorant.