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It's surreal to me that there are people who don't know what life before Wikipedia was like, lol.
Maybe it's relevant to understand that the increased access to information hasn't always translated to people being more informed. There are many people in my life who don't actively look things up and who don't have the curiosity or willingness to even check Wikipedia.
So it is still now a bit like what it was like pre-Wikipedia - people mostly relied on other people for knowledge, and knowledge was thus local and socially shared, not necessarily that factual or based in books. I still think this is the dominant way people live, but now social media is an extension of that "local" socially-mediated knowledge. TV and radio were sorta like social media before, it was the way things became "viral".
I think now like then, looking something up on Wikipedia sets you apart from a lot of people, it makes you bookish, nerdy, or pedantic - as if the folk knowledge wasn't good enough for you and you have become a traitor to your people by seeking something more from the stacks.