Re: If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

David Gerard <[email protected]>
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On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:

> PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been
> protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the
> entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was
> 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I
> suppose this is all missing the point of the question...


It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access
to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up?


- d.

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