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Re:Were we smarter 100 years ago? by quellhorst on Saturday July 18, 2009 @11:38PM (#712551)
The Internet used to be mostly filled with intellectuals and I thought people here were much smarter than the general population I encountered. Today the net is a cesspool.
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Re:Were we smarter 100 years ago? by sketerpot on Sunday July 19, 2009 @12:16AM (#712579)
That's an awfully broad statement, don't you think? The Internet used to be an area with a higher-than-normal density of intellectuals, and now you can only say that about some parts of the Internet. But please don't lump it all together as if there was some sort of equivalence between (say) Hacker News and 4chan and Christian Youth Forums and YouTube and the Energy from Thorium forum.

If the net is a cesspool, then so is the entire world.

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Re:Were we smarter 100 years ago? by quellhorst on Sunday July 19, 2009 @03:45AM (#712731)
Sure, but those bright stars like hacker news eventually burn out too. Hopefully it doesn't happen too quickly.
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Re:Were we smarter 100 years ago? by kragen on Sunday July 19, 2009 @01:42AM (#712651)
Oh hey, I didn't even know about the Energy from Thorium blog; there's a forum too? Is it good or bad?
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