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Author: TMFTarantula Big gold star, 5000 posts Top Recommended Fools Add to my Favorite Fools Ignore this person (you won't see their posts anymore) Number: of 9956  
Subject: Re: The last Encyclopædia Britannica Date: 15/03/2012 18:21
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what killed it was the arrival of DVD-ROM and Encarta twenty years ago, in particular MS bundling Encarta for free

Indeed - Slashdot mentioned that only today...

news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/15/150244/wikipedia-didnt-kill...

But I'd quite forgotten Encarta until I read that.
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