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)
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.
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)
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.