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No way!! I remember vividly a pirate ship cross section from these books. Nice find!
Yes, definitely my favourite one too
Holy nostalgia Batman
The sacred texts!
Microsoft Encarta, too! IYKYK.
Encarta was the peak of civilization. It's all been downhill since we left it behind.
"I'm Mr. Fox and I'm here to say, click on the door if you want to play."
I had... so many of those books...
Anyway, here is basically the grown up version:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Ultimate-Guide-Rebuilding-Civilization/dp/B0CJCKGRW1
Tons and tons of illustrations, 400 pages to get you from the stone age to roughly the post industrial age / early modern age.
... just in case.
woah, this is amazing. Seriously considering spending $120 on a book now
Yeah I normally don't go around just posting basically ads for products rofl.
But... this thing... it seems like a genuinely useful and also beautiful book.
And even though I have most of my 'books' in digital form...
Well, this would be the kind of thing you would want an actual physical backup of.
I used to love these books when I was a kid!
We used Altavista and it actually gave useful hits without ads.
Astalavista was much more exiting - will I save 10 bucks or format C, only god and f-prot knows.
In Germany there were Was ist Was (what is what). I'm not sure if it's a transliteration or a different publisher
And once in a while they would say outdated bs like "dinasours died to a volcano."
THEY'RE NOT ROCKS, THEY'RE MINERALS
IT'S CALLED HENTAI AND IT'S ART
a bunch of kids in the 90s just didn’t use anything
probably part of the reason the world is the way it is today