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  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    We read Ripley’s Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records instead of Wikipedia. Urban legends were rampant. Everyone lived in constant fear of “the gum disease gingivitis”.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      We also had encyclopedias, which were mostly accurate at one point in time but always a decade of more out of date when used as a reference.