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 @Viss Mid-late-last-century me, too It’s good to get old. I love the perspective from here. I want to get even older. @Viss i read this as 1990’s originally and was like “that’s fine” oh god it’s so much worse. The only way it could of aged me more is if they had said “at the end of the last century”  @Viss I'm sure this isn't intentional on your part, but I feel punked by the ALT icon on the original post XD @niji_limbo yeah, the 'gif' tag on twitter used to piss me off too cuz it kept getting in the way of text  @Viss @niji_limbo I think it's more the fact that the original post has alt text for accessibility, yours doesn't 8-P @niji_limbo @Viss It’s never been easier to add alt text to a screenshot of a blue sky post which is a screenshot of an email. I’ve been neglecting this step lately, but haven’t gotten called out for it yet @fisherstudio @Viss Oooh, neat! Is that a smart phone screenshot feature or something? 👀 @niji_limbo @Viss Yes, I should have probably included that alt text! LOL Thank you iOS 17.1.1 The current MacOS has this feature in the Finder, too @niji_limbo @fisherstudio @Viss Android lets you select text in the app switcher view - long press on text and it OCRs the app view and you can select and copy. On separately saved screenshots Lens can do the same thing, besides the usual like translation and visual search. @Viss Hard to even wrap my head around 2000 to 2023 is literally the same as 1900 to 1923. I mean, yes, it's just simple math. But my god actually _living it_ is unreal. Don't even get me started at how that would mean I was born in 1876. **decays into dust**   @Viss  @Viss in fairness to the student, aren't there some topics with cutoffs for sources that may be out of date? but also, i think it's quite possible the student is flexing their youth on the prof.  @Viss Please could you post alt text so that visually impaired people know what in the image you've used you're agreeing with? Thanks.  I regularly see references to species names that cite Linnaeus, 1758. I suspect if the reference is still relevant cite away. @Viss I often wonder if people living in the 1920's felt this way. I bet it wasn't as bad...a *millennium* changeover is a BFD. And I think folks alive in 1023 had other things on their minds. @Viss Middle 1900's here. In 1994--the date of that antiquarian research paper the student is asking permission to cite in their report--I was learning to use computers and had just moved from using bulletin board systems to using the NCSA Mosaic browser to surf a newfangled thing called the "internet." @Viss @elaterite In 1994, I had been using computers for over 12 years, had been on the Internet for 8 years, and was busily founding the first 100% broadband end-user ISP in the US. If I cited works on network design and security from the 1990s, they would have almost no relevance to the current state of the art. @gcvsa @elaterite muahahahhah but they dont know that >:D (in 94 i think i was in 8th grade and i may have gotten my first pc - i think my first modem was 2400 baud) @Viss @elaterite I got my first PC in 8th grade, too, but that was 1981 or 1982.  @Viss I thought it was 1800s and read it again... wow... I mean I'm probably their age but PLEASE 1994 is not THAT long ago!      That's honestly a good question. Depending on the field, a 30 year old paper can be woefully out of date, and most likely wrong given modern knowledge. @atatassault @Viss it appears that Mr. Penniman is a historian of Christianity (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpenniman/), so "late 1900's" is most likely just fine in his field.  Post from John Penniman: I will never recover from this student email. [student writes] Hope you had a great break! I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use sources from the late 1900’s for our final paper (I found an interesting paper from 1994). Is there a cut off date of publication?/ See you tomorrow  @Viss - Feeling old, huh? Don't worry, they'll learn about popular sources 'Socrates', 'Plato', 'Paul the Apostle', 'Jesus Christ', 'Karl Marx', 'Friedrich Engels', 'Friedrich Hayek', and 'Milton Friedman' eventually. They'll realise that asking about whether they can use ancient sources from 30 years ago is a bit silly. @Viss grocery stores tend to tailor their background music to the people most likely to spend money, and that’s people in their 40s. When I started hearing “my music” in the supermarket, I knew I was the target market. 1994. What's your tale at 1994. Where were you at? Where are you now? I got ten bucks says you're same as me.  @Viss did we have paper back then? I thought I remember using cuneiform tablets in grade school.   @Viss Image description: |
@Viss Geez. I was born in the late-mid 1900s. :yikes: