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Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

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You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it’s smaller than you’d expect

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How big do I expect it to be?

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Bigger than it actually is

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At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

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I downloaded one recently for when I was going to be offline for a whole week. It worked amazingly well!

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11 points

No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Microsoft Encarta 98

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Nowadays there’s Kiwix

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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