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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    Arguments at the dinner table were solved by an exasperated FINE, I’ll get up and get the encyclopedia just to prove you wrong

    Also, we had Encarta. It wasn’t online, but on a CD-ROM so you could view it digitally compared to the dozens of hefty books

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        We didn’t have encarta either. We would break out the encyclopedia

        And any school project started with the encyclopedia and then a trip to the library for further research.

        When I learned about Wikipedia it was awesome.