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by moomoo11 1096 days ago
encyclopedia Britannia existed. I came to USA in late 90s and my school had the CD set.
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CorrectHorseBat 1096 days ago
Wikipedia is ~100 bigger than the Encyclopædia Britannica

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

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throwaway2037 1096 days ago
Nice link! I never saw that page before. This quote surprised me:

    it should be noted that the amount of text added to Wikipedia articles every year has been constant since 2006, at roughly 1 gigabyte of (compressed) text added per year.
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tyre 1095 days ago
Yes, Wikipedia is surprisingly small. You can fit the whole thing on an iPad and access all of it without internet. Plenty of rabbit holes to fill even the longest airplane flight.
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hn_thrwn 1096 days ago
That's honestly much smaller than I expected.
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