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Quinn Dombrowski (quinnanya@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 04:33:51 JST Quinn Dombrowski
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Today I had an xkcd "ten thousand" moment with the @internetarchive and my #MultilingualDH students. Was I a little shocked most of them had never heard of the Wayback Machine? Sure. But it just meant today was their lucky day. #DigitalHumanities
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1. [Caption above the panel:] I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things. [Caption right below said caption:] Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time. [A list of equations.] Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0% Fraction who have heard of it by 30 ≈ 100% US birth rate ≈ 4,000,000/year Number hearing about it for the first time ≈ 10,000/day [Caption above the next panel:] If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out on the fun. [Megan is standing. Cueball is walking, with his palm out.] Megan: "Diet Coke and Mentos thing"? What's that? Cueball: Oh man! Come on, we're going to the grocery store. Megan: Why? Cueball: You're one of today's lucky 10,000.
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