@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe “research without a good librarian would be very much more difficult without the Internet, and would have taken days instead of minutes.” I trained in information gathering in this era. Government data in print form; Newspapers & magazines; Visits to libraries, phone calls; Site surveys; Photography; Computer printouts. You name, I had to source it. This analogue style of intelligence is now called ‘open source’. The gold was often human sourced, pointers iv you like to other sources. The unspoken rule was verification and ground truth.