• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    We literally went from doing essays in a library to using internet and printers (at first my teachers even forbid students from using Internet as a source), heck I even wrote on a typewriter a few times

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      “Wikipedia is not a source, anyone can edit it! You can’t be certain anything on there is true!!”

      Now wikipedia is probably the last bastion of decent information online. At minimum, a well-souced article gives you an excellent starting point.

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        Remember to donate to Wikipedia if you haven’t, we desperately need them to remain independently funded

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          Look into it. I cannot explain this well. They actually have more than enough money. In fact they are spending recklessly in other projects because of that.

          Yes we should donate if that changes but right now it would be better to donate to less well funded open projects.

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      Oooh, that’s a fun one. I can just barely remember some of my early research projects for school - getting source material at the library was a bear. What a time to be alive.