[psynapse]

When I was a kid, my parents kept a bookshelf with a vast library of National Geographic issues. I used to read them at random in idle periods, and I specifically remember the Koko's Kitten edition.

I never realised that she was still alive.

Makes me wonder though, in the internet age when people aren't in the habit of giving over large physical spaces to things like Nat Geo or Encyclopedias, how much getting information in this mode is diminished; as opposed to dog-on-surfboard social media snippets.

[pavel_lishin]

I think the modern equivalent is the wikidive.

I too lament the lack of a huge library at home, but I'm not worried about other people losing this. The kind of people who consume nothing but funny cat videos aren't typically the kind of people who would stock their home with reference materials anyway, right?

[maxerickson]

People are always complaining when HN surfaces an interesting article not dated in the last 5 days.

(by which I mean, the type of reading you talk about happens enough here that complaints about it happening are a thing)