Friday links roundup 7/15

The State of Millennials = a compendium of recent data outlining behavioral statistics of the Millennial Generation on slideshare, from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project:

Loading the Wikipedia homepage on a 300 baud acoustic modem from 1964:

Discussing failed experiments . Making a case that we should discuss our failed experiments (along with our successes). – from the Scholarly Kitchen

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  1. Joy Pile

    I used a similar type of modem in 1986 in library school. We used it to access the Dialog database to search for journal articles. Definitely clunky and it meant that librarians needed to provide mediated searches for patrons. Along with OCLC terminals, it was the hi-tech of the library world in its day.

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