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The internet before the internet, except it fit on a shelf and never lied for ad revenue.
means A comprehensive reference work covering many branches of knowledge, usually organized alphabetically or by subject.
from From Greek 'enkyklios paideia,' meaning roughly 'well-rounded education' or 'general education in a circle' — enkyklios meaning 'circular, all-round' and paideia meaning 'education, rearing of children.' The term described a full curriculum a well-educated person should master, not a book at all. The phrase got mangled when Latin writers mistakenly ran it together as one word, enkyklopaedia, treating what was originally a descriptive phrase as a single noun. That error stuck, and centuries later it was borrowed as the name for the book-form itself — the thing that contains the whole circle of knowledge.
- name origin
- Greek for well-rounded education, not actually ancient Greek word
- britannica peak
- 1990 edition had 32 volumes, cost $1500
- encarta irony
- Microsoft killed print encyclopedias, then Wikipedia killed Encarta
- diderot's ego
- French encyclopedia aimed to change how men think, mostly succeeded