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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Arguments at the dinner table were solved by an exasperated FINE, I'll get up and get the encyclopedia just to prove you wrong

Also, we had Encarta. It wasn't online, but on a CD-ROM so you could view it digitally compared to the dozens of hefty books

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