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u/phejster 1d ago
or spellcheck, it seems.
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u/Cheetahs_never_win 1d ago
No. I was squirted in the eye by formaldehyde from the contents of a dead fish in biology.
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u/dlchromdore 1d ago
“The goggles, they do nothin!”
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u/OneFrill 1d ago
Swam with their eyes open, uphill both ways, and saw the fish just fine. Kids today are soft.
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u/Lacroix24601 1d ago
I used goggle for swim class and passed, my bad.
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u/lostalaska 1d ago
When my parents talked about their time in gradeschool it seems they always put on their rose tinted googles first.
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u/FinsterFolly 1d ago
We had Britannica.
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u/Shrikeangel 1d ago
Just don't look at how much of their high school curriculum is now middle school material.
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u/tiptoptony 1d ago
Most school aged parents right now are in their twenties to forties and guess what? Google was around already.
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u/malcriadax 1d ago
I remember being TAUGHT how to use Google in elementary school. Probably would’ve been around 1999 or 2000.
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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 1d ago
It was Yahoo for me, but I definitely had web search. And Encarta made reports so much faster too.
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u/Individual-Pie9739 1d ago
35 to 40 year olds technically had google but it wasn't near as good and we had not yet gotten to the point that we were relying on it in the same way people do now. and we also didnt have smart phones. Any younger than that im not sure but my guess is the younger you are the more likely it is you used it alot.
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u/tiptoptony 1d ago
Google I think has actually gotten worse over the years not better. The search results are just junk now. Early 2000s to about 2015 was peak Google as a search engine.
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u/Individual-Pie9739 1d ago
better in some ways worse in others the information wasnt quite as readily available on nearly as many things as it is now but likely more accurate / less garbage to dig through. and it wasnt as easily accessible for us. no smart phones no tablets and the computers you had access to at school were extremely limited in what you could use them for most of the time. and the most important point that you didnt address at all is google was not the first place we went for information back then. and there was a whole lot of "dont believe what you read on the internet" sentiment back then.
point is the pic is largely true for people over 35 we did not use google to pass our classes.
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u/tiptoptony 1d ago
I'm over 35 with kids and used the hell out of Google, so did every single other person I went to school with.
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u/MsMarisol2023 1d ago
School was so hard without goggles…the future was so bright we had to wear shades.
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday 1d ago
google search engine was launched in 1998, 28 years ago. So parents of today's highschoolers absolutely used it.
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u/crastoman 1d ago
And also they used wikipedia. This church bs banner was written for boomers by a boomer
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u/starmartyr 1d ago
That's true but it still could only search what was available at the time. It was a lot harder to find reliable information than it is now.
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u/RheagarTargaryen 1d ago
Feels like we’re reversing course on that though with AI summaries and promoted websites paying for higher priority on searches.
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u/ScarletBothrium 1d ago
I feel like this is something someone would say who has been in a coma for the past 16 years. Google was fantastic in 2010 through about 2012. It has gone downhill dramatically since then and you can’t find shit based on classic search queries. And the normal annotations that you have to do to a search to get it to come up correctly used to work four years ago. It doesn’t work today.
TL;DR: have you been in a coma for the past 15 years?
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u/starmartyr 1d ago
You're missing my point. Yes google search has gone downhill but the quality of online information was terrible in 1999. There were very few primary sources. Most information came from personal websites and message boards. Google could find all of this but what you could find wasn't good. It wasn't until around 2008 that you could research reliable information online.
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u/RabidPlaty 1d ago
As someone with kids in high school I was done with college before then. So I was not one of those parents, but I’m jealous of my kids and I really wish I had it. Doing research for papers was a pain in the ass.
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u/FutureLost 1d ago
It's the 5th, the 4th is the sabbath one
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u/smelly1sam 1d ago
Catholic and Lutheran’s it’s the fourth.
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u/FutureLost 1d ago
Oh, I didn't know that! Went to a school that was more Baptist as a kid, so that was how I had memorized them. Interesting!
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u/Constant_Cultural 1d ago
And even the internet in general was meh, so we have seen libraries more often than our friends
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u/MillennialsAre40 1d ago
Google is more than old enough to have kids, so the statement isn't necessarily even true
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u/showmenemelda 1d ago
Umm, my grandma thought any old light bulb will grow a plant indoors. She has grown massive gardens, agricultural crops. When I told my dad my dismay, he was also confused. Both his parents are from multi-generational rancher/farmer backgrounds. But apparently photosynthesis was a new concept to me.
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u/YamahaRyoko 1d ago
Yes we did - and although I had two encyclopedias I could access and microfiche at the library, half of my school report was filler and double spaced to meet the three page length
My teen did a report on the bubonic plague and there was so much information he had to choose what to keep.
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u/Ash_Cat_13 1d ago
Uhmmmm. What? You didn’t need google to pass school when I was in high school….it barely existed. How did we have better education?, and yet, we clearly did since the current generation is horribly ignorant and poorly educated
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u/tutuncommon 1d ago
Free yourself from the tyranny of Goggle! Untie the knots which bind you. This message was brought to you by the Untied Methodists.
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u/InevitableDirt69 1d ago
Is true. Am a parent of gen Z kids. I had no goggles during any of my schooling
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u/LordHazlewood 1d ago
How old are the parents. Goggle has been out for nearly 40 years. They probably used “Ask Jeeves”, too.
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u/CaptainColdSteele 1d ago
The curriculum was also vastly different 40 years ago. Less history to learn, simpler math requirements to get a diploma
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u/Jeoshua 1d ago
Are you sure about that? In my life, I've watched education go from requiring Calculus to get into college, down to Algebra.
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u/CaptainColdSteele 1d ago
I was talking about diplomas not degrees. I didn't say anything about secondary education
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u/Jeoshua 1d ago
So... that's a no, then? Because how set you are to continue your education after high school is absolutely related to getting your diploma, and what you need on it has objectively gone down since I went through school.
In your estimation, when did schooling change?
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u/CaptainColdSteele 1d ago
When no child left behind started in the early 2ks, education took a big hit
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u/Hell-Yea-Brother 1d ago
5 miles, through the snow, uphill both ways!
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u/AllTheWorldIsAPuzzle 1d ago
And that was during September, you should have seen December through February! That was when we needed the goggles!
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u/ehisforadam 1d ago
Boomers really have no understanding of how the progression of time works, do they?
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u/BrazenGamer 1d ago
Well of course they do. Ask Gen X I think what they're pointing out is that we had to sit over a set of encyclopedias for 8 hours to do a simple report. I'm not sure why it would demand respect, but it wasn't time effective.
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u/UngregariousDame 1d ago
My mom went to high school in the ‘70s and spent most of her time skipping school and getting high, maybe school is just different now.
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u/Large-Hamster-199 1d ago
And 30 years from now, the line will be - "Respect your Elders, they passed high school without AI"
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u/guyfromthepicture 1d ago
Sick boomer joke. They also broke the chain of improving the world for the next generation so..
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u/BrazenGamer 1d ago
I still have my encyclopedias from childhood. If the grid ever goes down I will possess the collective knowledge of humankind prior to the mid-90s.
Behold the old magics of ages past! My tomes are bound, yet my intellectual prowess shall never be!
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u/UnbiddenGraph17 1d ago
“Respect your parents, they bought their house on one high school education salary”
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u/tuatrodrastafarian 1d ago
Must have been the extra points they received for being able to spell "boobies" on a calculator.
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u/Strong-Soft-5646 1d ago
Would say: respect your grandparents, they passed school without smartphone, without tablet, without Google and AI....
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u/justelectricboogie 1d ago
.....survived 4 major stock market events, job layoffs, life events (they happen to all of us), first trudeau government, etc etc etc.
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u/Kitakitakita 1d ago
well of course. It would only take one simple google search to have learned just how terrible Reagan was, yet they voted for him anyway
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u/madchemist09 1d ago
I had to wear those big clear plastic hideously uncomfortable goggles in science class. I wouldnt have passed without them.
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u/S0k0n0mi 1d ago
Life was also a lot simpler back then, including the bar of education.
Most seniors know how to make sequin salad, but they freak out at the sight of an HDMI cable.
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u/Hulme420 1d ago
That was true for my generation, but I feel all kids these days had parents that had google by high school or earlier.
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u/violenthectarez 1d ago
Not much relevance left in that sign. Google's been around since the late 1990s.
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u/CervantesX 1d ago
A religious school and they didn't have goggles? That's terrible. The priests probably got so much cum in their eyes...
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