• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    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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      58 minutes ago

      “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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      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.