I've been lamenting for many years that the dream of an "information superhighway" has basically failed. There is so much deep information available in any lar

I've been lamenting for many years that the dream of an "information superhighway" has basically failed. There is so much deep information available in any large university library that is simply not on the internet at all. If you're researching any historical topic, there are at least a few solid books (and possibly hundreds) that draw from primary sources, compared to a couple pages of text on Wikipedia and very little else. You mostly won't even find ebooks. Somehow the best, most extensive free digital resource is a podcast like Age of Napoleon, which synthesizes information from many books.