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Encyclopedias. I kind of forgot about those, but now I can remember relying on a hand-me-down encyclopedia set for answering childood questions without having t
by dangle1 5y ago
Encyclopedias. I kind of forgot about those, but now I can remember relying on a hand-me-down encyclopedia set for answering childood questions without having to go downtown to the library.
Late '70s, and my interest in space is met with the encyclopedia's entry on the moon: "Someday, man may go to the moon."
- eggy 5y agoI was 5 when Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon in 1969. I remember watching it on a 12 in. black and white TV. Encyclopedias amazed me. I would thumb through them and look up each mention of something I didn't understand - the modern equivalent of link hopping, except I kept my thumb on the main article.
- imadethis 5y agoI think having 4 of my fingers holding places on different pages in a reference book is the best analogue representation of the hundred tabs I open whenever I browse Wikipedia.
- eggy 5y agoExactly, but at least it is self-limiting. How many tabs can you keep open with 32 gb of RAM? ;) And if your finger slipped out, there was no 'back' key!
- jamesandthewolf 5y agoYou actually saw that on tv good sir I am impressed. Encyclopaedias are probably the reason why I started making this website, I want to share something with the world and to list every game every made! It will take me a life time to achieve the PC games section when I get there that is intemidating and arcade machine..., I'm not even sure I can obtain this goal but I'll have fun trying.