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Back in my day you had to buy Wikipedia. It came in like 20 massive volumes that ate up a shelf or two.

Thinking about it… I wonder what my parents did with our copies…

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I doubt Britanica has a page dedicated to Limp Bizkit.

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The encyclopedia even came on CD for a while. It was called Encarta. But I loved my parent’s World Book Encyclopedia much more.

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And that encyclopedia is online too.

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And looking up specific species, animals, conditions

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Still have em! They’ll be the last source of actual knowledge once the AI slop destroys us.

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