I would imagine it was harder to get information on topics as you would’ve had to buy/borrow encyclopedias to do.
Were there proprietary predecessor websites?
Tell me about the dark ages!
I would imagine it was harder to get information on topics as you would’ve had to buy/borrow encyclopedias to do.
Were there proprietary predecessor websites?
Tell me about the dark ages!
Britannica was for the rich folks… I grew up on World Book!
And we cut a ton of stuff out of them. Only one book report on a given topic or you gotta buy a new set of encyclopedias.
Just picked the best picture that showed up when I looked up encyclopedia. 🤷♂️
I’m not British, or a native English speaker, so mine really looked more like this:
This, but since these were expensive, lots of people bought cheaper, off-brand ones book-by-book at grocery stores over a period of 30+ weeks. We had a set growing up that my mother would pick up at whatever store we were going to, IDK, I was little.
What was life like before encyclopedia?
I’m not that old.