• Captain Poofter
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    146 months ago

    During the early newspaper era, they would write the editor with basic questions like they were google.

    • @sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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      86 months ago

      Yeah I read a 30 year old newspaper a while back and it was like super high latency internet. Message board, posts, replies to posts, personals etc. None of that stuff makes it into newspapers anymore…

      • @TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
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        66 months ago

        It is. I’ve seen ‘Write the Editor’ sections often in the magazines I check out from the library from time to time. IIRC: Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and The New Yorker have one.

      • Captain Poofter
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        6 months ago

        Newspapers? Depends who you ask

        Jokes aside, I am not talking about the “write the editor” sections we see now. I am saying they’d use it like GOOGLE. You’re not going to see someone ask “what’s 32,344 divided by 7?” Or “who is the senator of idaho” In the new yorker.