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Encyclopedias are anthologies of reference material. The name is Greek in origin and means “general education.” Encyclopedias have existed for at least two millennia, but they have undergone an unprecedented and radical transformation in the last 20 years.
In 1993, Microsoft launched Encarta on CD-ROM with entries supplemented with video and audio. It changed forever the way encyclopedic information was conveyed. Despite being lauded as a massive breakthrough in the way that encyclopedias worked, within a mere 16 years Encarta had been discontinued and was relegated to history. In that astonishingly short period, people had changed the way they sought information and the traditional reference material ...
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