From Floppy Disks to Fake News
How we built a world that knows everything — and believes nothing
In elementary school, we had to purchase floppy disks for computer class. Our teachers would tell us that Wikipedia was not a trusted source of information and that we should be careful about where we got our information. By the time I entered middle school, floppy disks were obsolete, and Wikipedia was widely becoming a trusted starting point for any t…