• rozodru@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    dumb people still had access to bullshit information prior to the internet. remember grocery store tabloids? papers with “Bat Boy” on them or how Jesus was constantly coming back, etc? I knew a couple adults that firmly believed and bought that shit.

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      5 months ago

      Sure, but before the internet somebody had to actually print a magazine or a book etc. to spread it wider than word-of-mouth