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[โ€“] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Grew up before the internet.

One thing I have come to realize is how much of history I learned passively from movies and comic books. The first time I saw Edgar Allan Poe was in an The Atom comic, and Julius Cesar was in a cartoon. Pretty much everyone I knew first hear classical music when they played it behind Bugs Bunny.

These days, there's a tiny handful of historically based shows and movies compared to earlier times.

[โ€“] grissino@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

'... and Julius Cesar was in a cartoon.'

Asterix taught me a lot of history too ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was wrong but the vibes were there!

[โ€“] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Not only that, but it sparked the interest. I lost count of how many things I saw in cartoons, comics, movies and TV shows that I simply had to know more about.

Another bygone method of learning things was by thumbing through the pages of an illustrated encyclopedia, like Golden Book Encyclopedia.