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There was huge value in thumbing through these as a child. We could never afford the set, but I had used copies of individual volumes and I spent many, many ho
by waterlesscloud 15y ago
There was huge value in thumbing through these as a child. We could never afford the set, but I had used copies of individual volumes and I spent many, many hours reading random topics. You just don't get that kind of discovery in an online version. Maybe you could, but you don't.
- saryant 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- kijin 15y agoHalf the time, that leads to auto-generated stub articles about small towns in the middle of nowhere.
- aValidUserName 15y agoSo just hit it again until it leads to something interesting.
- bartread 15y agoSeriously? YOU don't? You've obviously never experienced the Wikipedia death spiral: 30 browser tabs open all on unrelated Wikipedia pages. It was dangerously close to an addiction for me at one point and the amount of random crap I now know it irritates me I'm still so poor at pub quizes. There's probably some Godwin's Law equivalent where once you've opened a tab relating to Hitler or the Nazis, having started off on an article about Bengal Tigers, you know it's time for bed.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoThe problem is that you're selecting the topics. The value of a physical encyclopedia is that they've selected the topics and you're browsing them at random.
- colomon 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random