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There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on. (lemmy.world)
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[–] EvilLootbox@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it's smaller than you'd expect

[–] essell@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How big do I expect it to be?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bigger than it actually is

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I downloaded one recently for when I was going to be offline for a whole week. It worked amazingly well!

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 7 months ago

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Microsoft Encarta 98

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago

Nowadays there's Kiwix

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 7 months ago

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