Sometimes when I'm sitting at my computer, all 'Dear Google, how do I get wax out of a table cloth?' (warm iron and paper towel) or 'Dear Google, who was it that said 'The road to hell is paved with adverbs' (Stephen King), I wonder how they did it, so long ago, when all the knowledge in the world was stored up in books and in people's heads. Maybe they did a lot more calling their moms, or talking to Old Man Perkins down on Amblewood.
...actually, it was in response to a very funny story: The Internet is Magic on Ultratart, one of my favorite blogs.
Seriously, how did people do things back in the day? Reference books? Literal carbon copies of letters and memos? It blows my mind. We're so much more efficient nowadays--so I don't understand why no one seems to be working towards a standard 3-day weekend. Surely technology has earned us an extra 8 hrs off per week, eh? Who's with me?
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