Urizen |
Studpuffin wrote:Not in line mode it didn't! 300 wasn't bad, but 1200 flew!!Treppa wrote:No way, it must've moved at about a letter a minute!Ambrosia Slaad wrote:Sadly, I remember with delight the upgrade from 300 to 1200 baud. And not as a child. *sigh*Studpuffin wrote:I'm not that old... my parents just didn't understand all the possible trouble 10-12 yro me could possibly get into online (but thankfully didn't).Ambrosia Slaad wrote:Bah! In my day, we used to have to rename winsock.dll to get on the Web. We used to log onto local BBSes with text-only interfaces and command lines... and we did it at 2400 baud... both ways, in the snow! You youngsters!*perches to listen to Grambrosia Slaad's story*
I remember being the coolest kid in the local scene when I got a USR 9600 HST ahead of the rest of my fellow geeks. They laid down palm fronds at my feet.
Bitter Thorn |
Orthos wrote:+1 Insightful
The more I experience the world, the more I'm finding I'd simply rather not know.I think the "good old days" is less a desire for a never-existent world where these problems didn't exist and rather a desire to go back to where we didn't know about them. And boy do I sympathize. The world has become too small, for lack of a better term; too easy to know or think we know everything that's going on. There's many days where I simply wish to be able to go back to not knowing anything about the world beyond the borders of my hometown except for the occasional snippet about some celebrity, the President, or other tidbit one might catch over the news before changing the channel.
We - or I, at least - didn't know what was happening in the next state much less in a country halfway across the world, and there's more than once that I've thought we were better off that way. There is such a thing as knowing too much.
Ignorance is way over rated as the path to happiness.
Orthos |
bugleyman wrote:Ignorance is way over rated as the path to happiness.Orthos wrote:+1 Insightful
The more I experience the world, the more I'm finding I'd simply rather not know.I think the "good old days" is less a desire for a never-existent world where these problems didn't exist and rather a desire to go back to where we didn't know about them. And boy do I sympathize. The world has become too small, for lack of a better term; too easy to know or think we know everything that's going on. There's many days where I simply wish to be able to go back to not knowing anything about the world beyond the borders of my hometown except for the occasional snippet about some celebrity, the President, or other tidbit one might catch over the news before changing the channel.
We - or I, at least - didn't know what was happening in the next state much less in a country halfway across the world, and there's more than once that I've thought we were better off that way. There is such a thing as knowing too much.
And yet some days I simply don't care.
Samnell |
Bitter Thorn wrote:Ignorance is way over rated as the path to happiness.A happy ending and being ignorantly blissful simultaneously isn't necessarily a bad thing. Is it?
I actually think it's a very bad thing. A happy ending is fine. Nobody wants misery. Blissful ignorance? Nope. Being ignorant for reasonable and practical reasons that you can't much help is understandable. We're not all going to be physicists or mathematicians.
But to sit down and say gosh, you wish you just never knew? That's Blue and Orange morality in my book, at best.
Jeremy Mac Donald |
Urizen wrote:Bitter Thorn wrote:Ignorance is way over rated as the path to happiness.A happy ending and being ignorantly blissful simultaneously isn't necessarily a bad thing. Is it?I actually think it's a very bad thing. A happy ending is fine. Nobody wants misery. Blissful ignorance? Nope. Being ignorant for reasonable and practical reasons that you can't much help is understandable. We're not all going to be physicists or mathematicians.
But to sit down and say gosh, you wish you just never knew? That's Blue and Orange morality in my book, at best.
Disagree. Especially in the internet age. There are things that one really is best off not seeing or knowing. That said usually such things only exist to be disgusting and I make it a point not to learn about or view anything whose reason d'etre is to be vile.
The TVTropes Abyss |
But to sit down and say gosh, you wish you just never knew? That's Blue and Orange morality in my book, at best.
... Yes, yes ... The Beast must be Fed ...
Urizen |
Urizen wrote:Bitter Thorn wrote:Ignorance is way over rated as the path to happiness.A happy ending and being ignorantly blissful simultaneously isn't necessarily a bad thing. Is it?I actually think it's a very bad thing. A happy ending is fine. Nobody wants misery. Blissful ignorance? Nope. Being ignorant for reasonable and practical reasons that you can't much help is understandable. We're not all going to be physicists or mathematicians.
But to sit down and say gosh, you wish you just never knew? That's Blue and Orange morality in my book, at best.
Samnell, we're probably talking about two different things here. ;0)
Urizen |
Disagree. Especially in the internet age. There are things that one really is best off not seeing or knowing. That said usually such things only exist to be disgusting and I make it a point not to learn about or view anything whose reason d'etre is to be vile.
I give you an example of a site that fits this paradigm.
I refuse to hyperlink it. You're on your own, folks.
Yucale |
It's sort of amusing the two different conversations that are going on here... or, the debate and the... I can't think of a name for it.
In my opinion, it's best to search out knowledge, but for the sake of knowledge, and there are some things that really aren't worth knowing, or at least remembering. Also, if people use knowledge simply to make themselves look superior, that really gets on my nerves.
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Samnell |
Samnell, we're probably talking about two different things here. ;0)
That's possible.
Jeremy Mac Donald wrote:Disagree. Especially in the internet age. There are things that one really is best off not seeing or knowing. That said usually such things only exist to be disgusting and I make it a point not to learn about or view anything whose reason d'etre is to be vile.I give you an example of a site that fits this paradigm.
** spoiler omitted **
I don't see any reasonable objection to the site, and I went and loaded it and everything. I can think of aesthetic objections, but such trifles are not worthy of concern and can't possibly exalt ignorance over knowledge.