Can anything good come out of the internet?

[steve-in-kville]

One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.

[Neto]

We will find out when it's gone. (By what we miss. But perhaps not us, but a future generation.)

[Josh]

One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.

This is gradually being displaced by AI generated garbage with poor quality information.

[Pelerin]

One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.

Today I did some panel rewiring after watching a YouTube video on how to do it and was able to do it successfully with only a few minor electrical shocks.

(Just kidding about the shocks—the rest of it is true though.)

[MaxPC]

One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.

Today I did some panel rewiring after watching a YouTube video on how to do it and was able to do it successfully with only a few minor electrical shocks.

(Just kidding about the shocks—the rest of it is true though.)

I am shocked. Is rewiring that straightforward?

[ken_sylvania]

One thing that could be a good thing, yet I see a down side as well, is helpful YouTube videos. Gone are the days of having to get a manual and read it. Computer stuff, cooking, working on cars, guns, household appliances, etc. Search for it and someone has a vid on it.

I would re-word that to say "Gone are the days of being able to get a manual that is readable, reliable and complete."

I hate getting manuals that seem to have been machine-translated from Chinese.

[MaxPC]

Another benefit of the internet is the ability to access parallel Bible translations on Biblegateway and similar websites. It certainly is better than carting around one of those bulky parallel Bibles.