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[–] EvilLootbox@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] essell@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How big do I expect it to be?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 8 months ago

Nowadays there's Kiwix

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 8 months ago

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.