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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    Asterix taught me a lot of history too 😁

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was wrong but the vibes were there!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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.

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