Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid 🤔
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@FlockOfCats I did.
My parents bought one in the late 60s. It's crazy how even in the early 90s I sometimes still used it as a source for this or that.
Maybe that's why the world was going slower back then. Because we all had decades old encyclopedias?
@David @FlockOfCats I remember we had the whole Britannica series (maybe 15 or 20 thick volumes) and my Dad was so mad becuase some guy borrowed one volume to do something and never returned it- and then we moved (countries). My Dad bought the whole set of another - funk and wagnalls encyclopedia too - smaller tomes I remember flipping through those
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats My father spent a night in jail in an American small town for selling encyclopedias door to door in the late 1960s.
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@FlockOfCats My father spent a night in jail in an American small town for selling encyclopedias door to door in the late 1960s.
…is that a crime?
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…is that a crime?
@FlockOfCats I think it was the door to door part that got him in trouble, but perhaps the sheriff felt threatened by a college boy selling books.
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats True facts!
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@FlockOfCats My father spent a night in jail in an American small town for selling encyclopedias door to door in the late 1960s.
@softicecreamlesley @FlockOfCats we had two(!) sets of encyclopedias in the 1960s, presumably so Grandpa could flex. It was great until I got to college and found out Czechoslovakia was no longer one country
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats Guilty as charged, your honour.
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@FlockOfCats My father spent a night in jail in an American small town for selling encyclopedias door to door in the late 1960s.
@softicecreamlesley @FlockOfCats please tell me it was funk & wagnall's??
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats Yup!
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats brand new World Book 1985 set donated to my family. the gilt edges made me feel so rich. M and A were my favorite volumes.
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@softicecreamlesley @FlockOfCats we had two(!) sets of encyclopedias in the 1960s, presumably so Grandpa could flex. It was great until I got to college and found out Czechoslovakia was no longer one country
@soycamo @FlockOfCats hahahahaha
There was actually a Reel on Instagram where someone commented that they tried to send a letter to the Czech Republic at a Japanese Post Office and the worker said, “Oh, you mean Czechoslovakia?” Then the worker hauled out THE BOOK and looked it up, and to her surprise found out it was no longer 1992.
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@FlockOfCats I did.
My parents bought one in the late 60s. It's crazy how even in the early 90s I sometimes still used it as a source for this or that.
Maybe that's why the world was going slower back then. Because we all had decades old encyclopedias?
@David My encyclopedias were from the year I was born (1972). So you can imagine that, by the time I was in high school, they weren’t that useful. I took a straight razor to the P-Q volume and cut the middles of the pages out. It made a good place to stash stuff I didn’t want my parents to find.
In 2002 my mom still had them! I showed her the P-Q volume and she was horrified.
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
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@softicecreamlesley @FlockOfCats please tell me it was funk & wagnall's??
@scoutie @FlockOfCats I have absolutely no idea!
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats Hmmm, I did do this...
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats
Oh shit I feel so seen! I DID THAT! -
Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats @paco
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats oh crap. Yeah. Guilty as charged.
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Mastodon/Fedi is the social network for people who read the encyclopedia for fun as a kid
@FlockOfCats Dictionary, but yep. It me.
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