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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day 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.