Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid 🤔
@FlockOfCats I did.
My parents bought one in the late 60s. It's crazy how even in the early 90s I sometimes still used it as a source for this or that.
Maybe that's why the world was going slower back then. Because we all had decades old encyclopedias?
@David My encyclopedias were from the year I was born (1972). So you can imagine that, by the time I was in high school, they weren’t that useful. I took a straight razor to the P-Q volume and cut the middles of the pages out. It made a good place to stash stuff I didn’t want my parents to find.
In 2002 my mom still had them! I showed her the P-Q volume and she was horrified.
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