...the Internet, was, well what was it? Boring, not for me. I think it was much more enriching, to be honest. Yes, today you can Google, Bing or whatever you search engine taste is. It hasn't been that long, but long enough that I have been to a library, a good old fashioned, sit down and be quiet, people are reading library.
I loved having to ask for information. Especially from the older generation. You still can. It may not always be correct, and you had to verify and cross-check a lot of it, depending on what you were asking. Gosh, what was that saying I was just told the other night, "the mystery of history" or something to that affect. Either way, it made sense. I love both worlds, but word of mouth, listening to the elderly tell you stories of when they were children is fantastic and enthralling in itself. Sometimes the details can get intermingled with other stories, and this is where stories become inflated over time. When this happens, that's when you start to think if it's ever happened in history. It is capable, very bound to happen, just because it's in a text book, doesn't mean it's true, 100% true. Look at all the stories over time that have been changed and "facts have come to our attention". Amazing, no one ever lied before the Internet, huh? I guess only the Internet has misinformation and nowhere else. I caught a fish and it was "this big".
Thinking about everything is just simply amazing to me. Some people believe everything they hear, read and see, whether it be on the news, in the newspaper or Internet. It can come from the neighbor or over-heard in the deli, but truth be told, take everything and I mean everything with a grain of salt unless you were there, especially today in the Internet era. Come on, have you seen that gorgeous "french model" in the commercial on TV, ohh la la, bwhahaha, gets me every time. (clip below)
Anyone can tell you anything they want, it's a matter of what you believe and what you want to believe. Think about that game from when you were little called "Operator or Telephone", you would whisper something in someone's ear then they would do the same to the next person. This would continue around the room, until the last person heard it, then they would have to say it out loud. Ninety percent of the time it was wrong. It usually came out distorted and really funny. Everyone would laugh, it was a fun game. Thinking about it, it shows you how information being passed along through people gets distorted and mis-communicated over time, passed from person to person. Just imagine this was only within a few minutes. History has a way of getting jumbled and mis-communicated, it's inevitable, no doubt in my mind. The Internet has a way of letting people shape information to their own likings. It also has a way of allowing people to search unlimited amounts of information that is absolutely true. The difference is, which is real and which is not. Are there parts of it that are true? I would think and hope that most of it is, at least some of it is. OK, just a small glimpse. And this, this is the part that intrigues me the most. Is it live or is it Memorex? (and for those who don't know this line, clip below, took me about 10 before I picked one, loved them all)
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