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Buderus69 t1_iue5pgp wrote

Now imagine having this problem before internet and smartphones, this bugged the shit out of you and maybe if you were lucky a friend knew who they were.

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Uncle_Spenser t1_iuf125j wrote

I used to be a pro in identifying actors by name, etc., but I'm slowly getting worse at this. It might be because I spent less time watching films or there are a lot of new faces in the industry that I do not care about that much...

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I simply don't store that data in my brain anymore as I can access it at any point from a device that I always have in my pocket.

The other truth is - I also don't care that much, because I personally believe there's overall decline in quality as most films and shows aim at making money instead of being actually original and interesting.

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Buderus69 t1_iuf4gjm wrote

I feel like this has to do with the accessability of information and the exponential growth of data that we have to digest on a daily basis in comparison to back then.

We got so used to not needing to know information, but instead knowing how and where to find his information, that our brain adjusted to outsource this need for storage.

I also noticed I got worse with this kind of information, I was a lot better at memorizing infos.

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vinnybankroll t1_iugad6j wrote

You can’t possibly be talking about shows here. Did you watch tv in the 80s? It’s almost never been anything but an ad selling product, just now we have experienced actors, writers and production crews.

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fabrizziop17 OP t1_iue6e05 wrote

My brain would explode

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Buderus69 t1_iue71vs wrote

It was even worse with songs, you heard the end of a song you liked in the radio and never heard of it again and they didn't repeat the name. Then by some miracle you hear it two years later again and needed to write up the songname. Shazam was a godsend for stuff like this.

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jamesneysmith t1_iue952r wrote

Oddly enough I feel like the issue was less serious because if you orthe people around you didn't know then you just didn't know and were more easily able to move on. These days we all know the answer is two seconds away or at least should be so we need to know

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judyblue_ t1_iugp7ip wrote

My family had a movie directory that was basically IMDb in book form. It was published in the early 90s and was about 3 inches thick. It had thousands of entries with a brief synopsis, year of release, key cast and crew, etc., all cross-referenced. Then separate indexes so you could look things up movie titles, actors, or directors. We were all cinephiles and it was beloved like an heirloom family Bible. We used it daily.

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