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encyclopedia Britannia existed. I came to USA in late 90s and my school had the CD set.

• CorrectHorseBat 3y ago
  Wikipedia is ~100 bigger than the Encyclopædia Britannica https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
  • hn_thrwn 3y ago
    That's honestly much smaller than I expected.
  • throwaway2037 3y ago
    Nice link! I never saw that page before. This quote surprised me: it should be noted that the amount of text added to Wikipedia articles every year has been constant since 2006, at roughly 1 gigabyte of (compressed) text added per year.
    • tyre 3y ago
      Yes, Wikipedia is surprisingly small. You can fit the whole thing on an iPad and access all of it without internet. Plenty of rabbit holes to fill even the longest airplane flight.