When my access to the net was super slow I downloaded an offline hyperlinked concise version of Wikipedia (mostly for developing countries).
This offline version for me felt a pretty important thing - you could classify that as a hyperlinked 'document' I guess. This potted history of everything that had gone on so far reminded me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - thankfully without any examples of Vogon 'Poetry'.
Here's a bit of trivia for you. Back in the early days. I used to buy magazines to learn about interesting sites (before search engines maybe?) The guy who wrote 'Hitchhiker's' (Douglas Adams, who was very into the 'net) came up with what I can only describe as a prototype to what we know as Wikipedia now. The site was h2g2 dot something or other.
Grandpa will shut up and go back to sleep now...
It looks like it was h2g2.com, thanks for posting.
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Yeah, that's it. Kinda brings a tear to my eye.
If I remember it right the BBC had archived it after the author's death - I really thought it was just an archived relic! Really good to see it's still surviving.
Hope someone on, say instructables, has put it on a tablet with a good 'DON'T PANIC!' home screen on it.
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had no idea, very cool!
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