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!

      • dream_weasel
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        21 hours ago

        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.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        2 days ago

        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:

        Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      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.