What was life like before Wikipedia?
What was life like before Wikipedia?
I would imagine it was harder to get information on topics as you would've had to buy/borrow encyclopedias to do.
Were there proprietary predecessor websites?
Tell me about the dark ages!
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All information was passed down orally by people specially-trained to serve as “oral repositories”—in various cultures they were called bards, makars, aoidos, and various other terms. Important information was often set in verse to aid memorization.
There was a transitional period when writing and printing were used, and an even briefer period when these were supplemented by encyclopedias on CD-ROM before the birth of Wikipedia.
TIL the entirety of recorded human history was just a transition period between the oral tradition and Wikipedia lmao
When you plot the development of modern humans on a timeline, oral tradition makes up 95% of it.
"What was life like before Wikipedia?"
"Well, you see, in the year 7000 BC..."