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[โ€“] treadful@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.

[โ€“] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid in the 1980/90s, we had two encyclopedias at home: a 20 tome encyclopedia from 1905, and a three volume current one. At some point we got Microsoft Encarta, a CD-ROM encyclopedia.

It was far more common for people to say they don't know something and refer to other's expertise.