It's amazing must how fast the Internet has dramatically changed things. Take a look at phone books, nearly obsolete in the matter of years. And now the encyclopedia, single-handedly destroyed by Wikipedia. Wikis are fascinating creatures. They are created and maintained by the masses. I never thought in a million years that an online encyclopedia edited by the world would be credible. But people use it, oh how they use it. It is by far the number one used tool to look up something. It is up there with Google and YouTube. I use it just to find citations of related materials that I can read based on certain topics. It's an amazing new technology and so simple at its core. It will be interesting to see what other long standing, traditional resources the Internet will replace.
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