The 2010 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was the last

**jrandom** · 14th March 2012, 20:16

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...he-presses/?hp

Hard disks, LCD touch screens and the internet have finally killed a poster child of the print industry.

I find myself not experiencing any particular emotion in reaction to this news.

**Winston001** · 14th March 2012, 20:38

Yeah, everything has its day in the sun. I have an affection for the Encyclopaedia Brittanica ever since I discovered it as a small boy. All that knowledge and information but alas it only existed in libraries - and my uncle's house.

Today I have a 1982 set which gets looked at a few times a year but Google is your friend...

Alas the King is dead.

**blackdog** · 14th March 2012, 20:47

Originally Posted by Winston001

Yeah, everything has its day in the sun. I have an affection for the Encyclopaedia Brittanica ever since I discovered it as a small boy. All that knowledge and information but alas it only existed in libraries - and my uncle's house.

Today I have a 1982 set which gets looked at a few times a year but Google is your friend...

Alas the King is dead.

When sitting down with the kids on a Sunday there is still nothing like opening an encyclopedia or atlas. The interweb doesn't smell the same.

**Usarka** · 14th March 2012, 20:49

Cost my parents a bloody fortune years ago.

**Pussy** · 14th March 2012, 20:58

My last loader driver when I was topdressing made the Encyclopaedia Brittanica redundant anyway.
The wanker knew everything.

**Winston001** · 14th March 2012, 21:49

Encyclopaedias eh, its all a bit sad how they have gone out of use. Like you Blackdog I'm still keen on opening a big book.

On the other hand I have a stack of Colliers or some-such in the garage ready to put in the woodburner. Thick books are marvellous to keep the fire smouldering overnight.

Not that I've brought myself to do it yet....

**SMOKEU** · 14th March 2012, 21:51

Google is my best friend.

**flyingcrocodile46** · 14th March 2012, 22:00

Encyclopedias were always overrated.

They become completely redundant as soon as you get married, because wives know everything.

**Big Dave** · 14th March 2012, 23:53

>>not experiencing any particular emotion<<

Slight melancholy for the transparent plates that overlaid human physiology/anatomy in layers over the skeleton.

**kiwisfly** · 15th March 2012, 09:08

Originally Posted by Big Dave

>>not experiencing any particular emotion<<

Slight melancholy for the transparent plates that overlaid human physiology/anatomy in layers over the skeleton.

yeah good material till the plates stuck together then it was back to the nat geo with old village toothy woman with roll-up boobs!

**The Lone Rider** · 17th March 2012, 07:52

Bit of a problem for uni and polytech students. Last I heard, you can't turn in your research with the bibliography listing a bunch of websites, especially Wikipedia. You can get away with a few of them, as long as you had a number of references from a printed encyclopaedia and other hard copies.

The rise of the internet research has also meant universities and polytechs have had to require papers be handed in, in a certain format, so that they can be run through a system that compares the handed in paper to any entries on Wikipedia and I guess Google. An anti-plagarism system if you like.

**Usarka** · 17th March 2012, 07:59

Handing in a uni paper based on Encyclopedia Brittanica references probably wouldn't have resulted in a great mark either.

**SpankMe** · 10th March 2013, 11:40

A lament for Encyclopaedia Britannica.

**Fergus** · 10th March 2013, 13:42

Originally Posted by The Lone Rider

Bit of a problem for uni and polytech students. Last I heard, you can't turn in your research with the bibliography listing a bunch of websites, especially Wikipedia. You can get away with a few of them, as long as you had a number of references from a printed encyclopaedia and other hard copies.

If you can write a paper with info from wiki alone then you're probably still in high school or studying tourism or something

You don't need hard copy references, they just need to be reputable. Most academic journal articles are only available online..

The rise of the internet research has also meant universities and polytechs have had to require papers be handed in, in a certain format, so that they can be run through a system that compares the handed in paper to any entries on Wikipedia and I guess Google. An anti-plagarism system if you like.

Yep, turnitin.com
""Check papers against 24+ billion web pages, 250+ million student papers and 110,000+ publications.""
None of my work has been through it, all of girlfriend's work does. I guess engineering students are honest and management students are a bunch of cheats