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My ex thought that night time just meant that the moon went in front of the sun. I have no idea how she managed to live to 30 years old before she learned about night time.

As if now people are knowledgeable...

Now you can go online and double down on your misinformation.

My grandfather told me that grits were ground-up pig's knuckles. I was in my late 20s before I learned otherwise. Pop just didn't want to share his fucking grits, which is at least understandable.

Now you ask uncle Grok and carry his misinformation for 20 minutes, because your long-term memory doesn't exist anymore.

I like the way Mary Jo and Bridget explained on a rifftrax video for 'Duties of a Secretary' - "Secretaries were the internet in heels."

"Urine is sterile"

"You can only fold paper 7 times"

Etc.

This meme is older than Lemmy.

Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.

We were taught blood was blue in school, not just once, in at least two grades. Not in the book mind you, but from the teachers' mouths.

The 7th grade science book did teach us gamma rays move faster than the speed of light, which is bullshit.

"The eyeball is full of blackberry jam."

~ My grandfather, unironically, not remotely joking, actually completely serious.

That's right thanks to the internet misinformation is no more!

My dad told me thunder is when clouds collide

We're still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.

I had an argument with a teacher in middle school who shared the crap of, “If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years.” The kids told me I must be wrong, because the teacher said it so he must be right.

I was so pissed that I came in the next day with three different sources saying that it was a myth. He quietly admitted the truth to me, but refused to tell the class.

I get being frustrated with kids chewing gum in class, but if you have to lie to get them to follow rules, that’s a failure as a teacher. He was a science teacher, no less. If anybody should be open to a student pulling up sources for a claim, or to admitting they learned something new and they were wrong before, it should be a science teacher.

Thanks, Mr H. Way to prove to me that even “cool” teachers care more about controlling kids than being truthful.

You could go to your local library. I still do.

Now an LLM has parsed Aunt Marge's Facebook posts into it's knowledge bank and regurgitates it to everyone searching online for an answer.

My family bought an encyclopedia set. My older brother used it to teach me about tornados to help take my mind off my chicken pox when I was a kid.

Nothing has really changed since then.

We were led to believe we'd die if we ate a single apple seed until about 1995, when I observed my FIL eat an entire apple, core, seeds, and all, which obviously blew my mind.

Now someone’s aunt marge in another country does it.

"So nothing really changed, except you don't ask your aunt anything anymore. You still talking to her?"