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Fuck I feel old. Like, really old.
I remember what these things smelled like. The paper cards and the wooden drawers had a distinct smell.
Fucking wild.
I actually don't know, but I gather it's a sort of standardized filing system
Yes, it has a card for every book that usually has the title, author, subject, publication date, and Dewey Decimal number of the book. Then you could use the Dewey Decimal number to find where it would be on the library shelves.
Multiple cards per book; the idea was/is that you can look things up by subject to find book titles you didn't know you were looking for
No make it a series of connected telegraphs where we post in Morse code
Thing not commonly used for like 30 years now considered old, shocking
Closer to like 15-20 years. You're way overestimating the budget of a typical public or school library. Like I went to a primary school which was fully rebuilt after the year 2000, and we were still using this filing system in the library. Although I think it was more them refusing to approve overtime for digitizing the old catalog.
Moments like these remind me how far behind technologically parts of the global south are because these are still used in many rural areas of my country.
I assume she's deliberately trying to make me feel ancient :angery:
This is awesome. I read a thing last week about how kids entering the workplace have zero knowledge of drive file systems or how printers or scanners work. They can shoot, edit, and publish videos from a phone but ask them to save a file on K in Project/230303/PSD and their brains melt.
Helped a kid store a file on his desktop and retrieve it the other day. He's already taken several computer science courses.
I was taught about the Dewey decimal system for one class during the library period when I was in 4th grade, and we never used it. Like never again. If we needed anything we usually just asked the librarian or the computer to look it up
I learned about the Dewey decimal system from watching Conan the Librarian.
Libraries still have these tho.
Shes not young, shes sheltered.
This is what the internet was before the internet.
