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[–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Thanks for this PSA, it's stunning how we used to have encyclopedias in our studies but now no one collects the physical offline copies (which includes an archive of Wikipedia)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    no one collects the physical offline copies

    I've still got my dad's 1957 encyclopedia in a storage closet somewhere. Another one from 1981 is floating around somewhere. But they take up enormous amounts of space and don't do a great job of self-updating, nevermind searching or re-indexing.

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