Everything's available on the internet
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
February 19, 2010 12:58pm CST
Maybe not everything...
But seriously, I was looking for the same picture frame that I had gotten for Dearra, a frame where you put in photos for every month for their first year. The store I bought it at didn't have it any more. I couldn't find it at a frame store. I looked at the one I already had, got the company name, looked it up online and there it was!
My favorite jeans, well they're getting a bit worn and JC Penney doesn't carry them any more. I went online and there they were.
My German letters that I'm translating (well I need to get back to them) - I found the script that they were written in on the internet and I was able to look up all the towns that were being talked about and actually see pictures of what they look like, their history, etc.
The old book I got from my mom brought up a whole story of a very interesting man and a printing press and a crafter's group in New York, all on the internet.
Most of the time if I need something I can go over to Google or Yahoo or whatever and with a little searching, there it is. Who would have thought, 20 or 30 years ago, that we would have so much information at our fingertips?
Have you ever been unable to find something online (other than private information,perhaps)? Why? Was it something really obscure? Or was there too much information to wade through? Or what?
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
19 Feb 10
yes it is so marvelous that people who are not on the internet will ask me to find someone or something that i have to explain to them i cant always find a person or a thing they 
its hard to explain to them the way the process goes. but yes i have found some things that have blown me away
also, a guy found me from high school 40 yrs past now!! its hard to explain tho to some that there are people and things not on the internet to find. AM I FIRST?
@BarBaraPrz (47338)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Feb 10
I have a friend who thinks I can find anything on the 'net, bless her heart.
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dang didnt type fast enough.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Feb 10
too true. But getting out is good too! Seeing a work of art online isn't the same as seeing it in person, just for example...
@BarBaraPrz (47338)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Feb 10
The other night I listened to a radio interview with famed character actor Maury Chaykin. So I looked him up online. Lots of info on him, but no pictures! Every link I went to, no pictures, or if they did have a pic, it was of a title shot of whichever show he was in, but not showing him.
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@BarBaraPrz (47338)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Feb 10
Yeah, that's what's really weird about it.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
19 Feb 10
U lucked up , lady, good for u. I am such a dull person & so set in my ways i never research anything very often.Need to improve my wicked ways. lol
@savypat (20216)
• United States
19 Feb 10
The only time I have trouble finding something online is when I don't know what it's properly called. You know, that whatumajigger that you need to fix the bike or the fan or the thingimajig that opens the back window. Those requests just don't bring much info over the internet.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
9 Mar 10
that is one thing i greatly love the internet for.
i found so many rare/out of print books on amazon i had been looking for for years,
i felt like a kid jumping in a ball pit.it's like a worldwide store.
usually do find what i'm looking for..i'm sure there's been exceptions,but one eludes me right now.
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@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
20 Feb 10
Your right, pretty much everything and anything and then some that you want to know you will find it on the internet. There have been times that I haven't been able to locate what I was searching for, usually when that happens it is because of the lack of time to wade through the information that it brought up. But I do have to say overall the internet is a good souce of information. I have used it lately to find scripture, I type in a few words of a verse that I recollect and then it will give me the chapter and verse of the scripture I want.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
Usually if I can't find something it's because I'm just not using the right words...
@thuhuong (823)
• United States
19 Feb 10
Hello dawn, I was able to find most of my items but I think I don't need much so most of the things I find online are excessive information of which I have yet to read. With things that I already own, I usually find reviews for them and/or read more about reviews before I buy them. Sometimes even trying to find used stuff, I can use ebay or craigslist. Thus, anything that I'm interested in nowadays I can compare prices so I usually do a lot of that since I own stuff that are commercially abundant.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Feb 10
That is one problem, sometimes there is too much information and how do you know which source is going to be the best?
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
21 Feb 10
The world is literally at our fingertips with the World Wide Web! I have found so many things online at times when there was nothing like it in the stores. From a new type of non toxic Bindies for my daughter (they are now called Beados) which was a recalled product unavailable anywhere to books I remember owing when I was in my teens. All you need is one key word and bingo, it’s there for you! Marvellous!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
21 Feb 10
Sorry they are spelled 'Bindeez', my mistake:Beados is the new name for them. Here is a link, NOT A REFERRAL:
http://www.mooseworld.com.au/content/Bindeez2/Home.aspx
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@marguicha (223101)
• Chile
19 Feb 10
Internet has changed my life as to the facilities to get information. I don´t buy online, probably because I dont buy period.
But my sister gets books and movies that are not available in my country. I have even got information about my family. I even discovered a site about my hubby (who was a pro soccer player decades ago)and a lot about my father and siblins (all scientists). Even I had a place in the net (got that when I was searching for anything because I needed just one more search to get the 2500 grains of rice (I suppose you have heard me talk about the United Natinons site www.freerice.com ).
Do you think I could even get a pair of jeans waist high? I hate those jeans made for models without bellies.
Hug
But my sister gets books and movies that are not available in my country. I have even got information about my family. I even discovered a site about my hubby (who was a pro soccer player decades ago)and a lot about my father and siblins (all scientists). Even I had a place in the net (got that when I was searching for anything because I needed just one more search to get the 2500 grains of rice (I suppose you have heard me talk about the United Natinons site www.freerice.com ).
Do you think I could even get a pair of jeans waist high? I hate those jeans made for models without bellies.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Feb 10
Levi's 512 jeans, those are the ones I was talking about, there are still some online, probably some other styles too. Lee makes one and so does Gloria Vanderbilt...
@marguicha (223101)
• Chile
21 Feb 10
Thanks. I´ll check the web and try to descripher what´s left of the numbers of my old jeans.
@Ingkingderders (3832)
• Philippines
19 Feb 10
There are a lot of information on the internet but sometimes there are still things or people or maybe even places that have not caught up. Back in November, before I went to vacation in a province here in Philippines, I was surfing in the net to find the perfect hotel to stay. Some of the hotels listed in the province still doesn't have their own website and some I had a hard time looking for their contact numbers. Hehehe. I guess they have not really thought of venturing into the internet world yet, and they don't even have email.LOL.
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@Ingkingderders (3832)
• Philippines
21 Feb 10
I sure hope they do. Cause it would really help their business.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
20 Feb 10
indeed, dawnald, the internet is one virtual library - the broadest source of information about literally anything. what you want to know about... what you want to buy... just about anything you're looking for gets answered through the internet. isn't that wonderful, as you said, so much information at our fingertips. sometimes, though, but it doesn't always happen, we get some wrong or misleading information. and that's what we have to be aware of... never bite hook, line and sinker, information from the internet... use caution...
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
That is for certain. Ps wanna know how to get some of Bill Gates' money?
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
21 Feb 10
you got me interested there, dawnald. but, of course, i'll take that with a spoonful of salt...
@cowboyofhell (3063)
• Philippines
20 Feb 10
yea so much is available from internet and to make me rather happy they are for free. I had played with other gamers out there and had lots of information downloaded whether in the form of ebook or newsletter. i keep my computer healthy by downloading some antivirus from internet. i can email my parents for free. i can chat with other people to know them better.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
it's really great for keeping in touch with people who are far away from you!
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 10
I have a 90 year old relative who was brought up on carbolic soap and she told my mum she can't get it anywhere, so for a nice surprise I thought I'd look it up on the internet and I found an online shop that sold it and I sent it straight to her address, sadly the package got lost in the post, but at least I had tracked down a site that sold it. The internet is a wonderful tool and it seems anything is available from the innocent to even illegal stuff too. There are no limits, whatever you want it's readily available at a touch of a button.
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@derek_a (10874)
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20 Feb 10
I usually manage to find most things I am looking for on line. There are some occasions when I have to search around a bit or modify my search words/phrases. The Internet has proved a great time-saver for me, even if sometimes, I have wasted time! _Derek
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
lots of time wasting... but then think of all the time you save not having to drive to the library, the bookstore, etc.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
20 Feb 10
You are right.....just about everything is available online...in fact we even bought our camper off Craigs list....I seriously have always found what I want and sometimes more....it is totally amazing that the whole world is virtually at our fingertips.
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
20 Feb 10
it so happen that school kids nowadays, at least here in our place, have less books issued by the schools. or this college student we have, that we can't buy her books. so lots of time we have to refer things like researches and projects on the net. that is very common i guess, but we, the parents have some things we were able to know or had just learned when kids go online to research. you know, even we had learned from school some things that we could have thought to the kids, or because we are not natural english people, we have already forgotten those things or we could not answer some of their questions asked. say for example, the moon, what is moon or what really is a moon. we have no books at home so we refer to the net. some things like that.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
It does make many things very convenient...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
Not just in Arabic. Remember Timothy McVeigh?
@rebornishard (186)
• Indonesia
20 Feb 10
not everything, you can't find god in internet
CMIIW
but i'm happy because internet in my era
i can contact other easily :)
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Feb 10
God, maybe not, but religious discussions, links to churches, etc.
