Timeline for How did researchers find articles before the Internet and the computer era?
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| S Jun 26, 2019 at 21:28 | history | suggested | Necreaux | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | David Richerby | @AleksandrH It's used as a glue, especially for sticking bits of paper together as described in the answer. | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 0:21 | comment | added | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan | I Googled mucilage and am thoroughly confused | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 19:07 | comment | added | Solar Mike | Stealing from libraries or churches goes way way back - why do you think they chained books to the tables? Those books had a lot of value.... | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | J. Chris Compton | @DavidRicherby The social decay started before late 90's, before "the web". I would think the availability of info on the web would make book theft less common because you'd have less reason to steal them. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | David Richerby | @J.ChrisCompton Exactly: you've noted that stealing books was a thing in the mid-to-late '80s and the web didn't become generally useful for research until the mid-to-late '90s. (Not my question, btw.) | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 17:05 | comment | added | J. Chris Compton | @DavidRicherby Well I first used a web browser in 91 or 92 (at a university). The web 'became a thing' (read as "became generally useful") long after that. In any event, to answer your question stealing books became "not uncommon" before the web showed up in a significant way. I can't speak to how much worse it got (if any) once I was no longer taking classes. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 16:45 | comment | added | David Richerby | @J.ChrisCompton In other words, thefts from libraries were already established as a problem a decade before the web became a thing. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 12:24 | comment | added | J. Chris Compton | @StephanKolassa "people started stealing books from libraries" it became... not common... but not unknown... in universities in the mid-late 80's (i.e. it wasn't the talk of the library when one was discovered stolen). When it really got bad was when they were stolen from the reference section (you weren't even allowed to remove books from that area; personal items were supposed to be searched when you left). | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 8:48 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | "people started stealing books from libraries, something nobody ever did before" [citation needed] | |
| S Jun 25, 2019 at 8:44 | history | edited | Nobody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Take out Shouting.
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| S Jun 25, 2019 at 8:44 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2019 at 8:43 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | Time traveling (2nd sentence) unfortunately is still not working. | |
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| Jun 25, 2019 at 6:23 | comment | added | WGroleau | But the upside is that in those days, it was much harder to find complete nonsense by some fraud who is not afraid to share everything he thinks he knows about something. | |
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 23:11 | history | answered | user110183 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |