Comments on: The Wikireporter http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1035 Jason Scott's Weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rob "Flack" O'Hara http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1035/comment-page-1#comment-4051 Rob "Flack" O'Hara Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:48:31 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1035#comment-4051 When I first discovered Wired Magazine I thought of them as falling somewhere between Mondo 2000 and Internet Underground (anyone remember that magazine?). During the dawn of the Internet and especially before that, it was tough to get cutting edge technology news here in the midwest (at least it was for me). Magazines such as the ones listed above filled that void for a while, before everything went online. As for "Source: Wikipedia", I suspect 2/3 of all high school papers (and probably more) should have that tag appended to them. My guess is a lot more kids are familiar with Google than they are the Dewey Decimal System these days. When I first discovered Wired Magazine I thought of them as falling somewhere between Mondo 2000 and Internet Underground (anyone remember that magazine?). During the dawn of the Internet and especially before that, it was tough to get cutting edge technology news here in the midwest (at least it was for me). Magazines such as the ones listed above filled that void for a while, before everything went online.

As for “Source: Wikipedia”, I suspect 2/3 of all high school papers (and probably more) should have that tag appended to them. My guess is a lot more kids are familiar with Google than they are the Dewey Decimal System these days.

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