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i feel like lemmy skews older than the rest of the internet

i also made an anonymous poll because data is cool
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fGestKFfPddlgaPA4zOONy4GGq9DBUXoDfS-cqUsaPE/

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[–] Kaiyoto 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Once upon a time I did research out of these big sets of books called encyclopedias.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i can't imagine how annoying it must have been to glue each individual letter in the printed search bar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think you just write it in with pencil? So you can rub it out after you've turned to the right page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Are those like wikipedias but circular?