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Visited my old high school library and felt like a time traveler
I went back to my old high school in Springfield last week to pick up my nephew, and the library still has the same 2003 encyclopedia set I used to grab for history papers. The computers were finally updated, but the card catalog drawer is still there collecting dust in the corner. Anyone else feel weird seeing how much things have changed in these public spaces while other stuff stays frozen in time?
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williamw753d agoMost Upvoted
And thats the thing nobody talks about, how those old card catalogs actually taught you a way of finding information that's totally gone now. You had to learn the Dewey Decimal system, you had to know how to cross-reference subjects manually, and if the drawer was missing a card you were just stuck. My sister teaches at our old high school and she says kids today get frustrated if a search bar doesn't auto-complete for them. So yeah, the building might look frozen in time but the way we think about knowledge itself has changed way more than the paint on the walls.
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