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Thursday Afternoon Diversion: Life Before Google

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 26, 2013 8:00PM

Chicago Slices was a program that aired on WPWR-TV in the early 1990s documenting life in and around the city. Today we bring to you a clip (courtesy of the Media Burn Archive) that showed how the Chicago Public Library Information Service at the Harold Washington Library worked. This was a few years before the Internet exploded, information could be found on Google and Wikipedia Brown took someone's word for it.

You can view the complete episode at the Media Burn Archives website.