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!

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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.

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      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