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Library Files Bizarre Questions Asked By People Before The Internet

by Sabotage
8 January 2015 2 Comments

"Why do 18th Century English paintings have so many squirrels in them?"

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“What did people do before Google?” is one of the most FAQs of the modern age.

Staff at New York’s Public Library have found the answer after stumbling upon a box labelled “Interesting Reference Questions”, containing customer queries from the 1940s to the 1980s.

It seems in a time before the internet, people phoned the library for reference, and if their question couldn’t be answered, the librarian would type it up on a card and file it away for someone else to deal with. Here are some of the best examples…

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(Images via New York Public Library)

 

 

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yeah right 12:23 pm, 11-Jan-2015

yeah, im sure the guy was worth 27 million lol.. thats what he said at least at that new years party

Brady 6:19 pm, 13-Jan-2015

Straight up, that second one looks like my internet history!

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