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Yes, there was at least one physical Wikipedia device (the Wikireader, released in 2009 and discontinued in 2014), but these days a more practical solution is t
by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, there was at least one physical Wikipedia device (the Wikireader, released in 2009 and discontinued in 2014), but these days a more practical solution is to put an offline Wikipedia app like Kiwix on an old phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
https://kiwix.org https://kiwix.org
- int_19h 2y agoOne of Kiwix subprojects is a Raspberry Pi image creator. Once set up, it acts as a simple server you can connect to over WiFi with any device that has a web browser (and Kiwix serves pretty basic HTML so even very old stuff works fine).