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The Wikimedia Foundation has joined the fediverse by setting up their own Mastodon server! (wikimedia.social)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You're right, although if you ever get the chance to browse a real physical encyclopedia, it's a unique experience.

Not practical, but it's a bit like playing a record or playing a game on a real NES. It's a unique experience.

I have a full 2007 set of Encyclopedia Brittanica in the same room as my vintage computer collection. I browse it occasionally.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    Oof, felt this right in the geriatric millennials.

    Mfer I was doing assignments where I had to scroll through index cards to find the encyclopaedia, then hand write out the essay.

    It’s weird when you go from being the disruptor demographic to realising that when your 5 yo kid jokes about the 80s it’s as far away in time to him as the 1940s we’re to me - for him it’s a 2d, pre-Alexa, analog dystopia.

    And I’m only 42.

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