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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

People made a living selling encyclopedias door to door. Just saying.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And encyclopedias before wikipedia had a whole pile of wrong garbage information in them. Because they were compiled quickly by people with little knowledge about the field they were compiling the information for.

[–] Hungry_man@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is garbage as well when it comes to topic from third class country

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Might be. Classic Encyclopedias were worse. Don't know if you ever used one and looked up stuff for a subject where you have above average expertise. They only contained very surface-level information, rarely more than a paragraph or two, and what they contained was riddled with errors.