I remember when we had an encylopaedia set a hundred billion years ago! Though I can't remember if it was World Book or Britannica.
and where I lived it would have been pretty interesting to get it, no travelling salesmen in our part of the world and logistics is a nightmare even now
Also remember trying to figure out the cards at the library and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago and recognising Logo (the programming language where you can get a pixel turtle to draw stuff) in Robot Turtles (a board game I eventually bought for my kids when they were small which teaches programming logic) and getting Windows 3.11 and a computer with a cdrom and the internet xD
My parents gave us their collection of Britannica Great Books (I'm kind of failing at working my way through them) and I think our Encyclolaedia set is long gone, the space on the shelf I remember it being on is now occupieed by photo albums and scrapbooks that my mum has been making/collating (and I kind of value them a lot more).
I've been looking into mesh networks as it seems to somewhat function how the internet in my head universe functions. Might get something or other to try it out at some stage but I don't think it will do that well as I can't imagine there's too many people using it right now. Would help in event of internet outage but not sure how much it would help in event of electrical outage.
