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the dark ages (quokk.au)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/90s_memes
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[–] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections

GOAT

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    • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    The sacred texts!

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    [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Microsoft Encarta, too! IYKYK.

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    • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I had... so many of those books...

    Anyway, here is basically the grown up version:

    https://www.amazon.com/Book-Ultimate-Guide-Rebuilding-Civilization/dp/B0CJCKGRW1

    Tons and tons of illustrations, 400 pages to get you from the stone age to roughly the post industrial age / early modern age.

    ... just in case.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    woah, this is amazing. Seriously considering spending $120 on a book now

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yeah I normally don't go around just posting basically ads for products rofl.

    But... this thing... it seems like a genuinely useful and also beautiful book.

    And even though I have most of my 'books' in digital form...

    Well, this would be the kind of thing you would want an actual physical backup of.

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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I used to love these books when I was a kid!

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    We used Altavista and it actually gave useful hits without ads.

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    THEY'RE NOT ROCKS, THEY'RE MINERALS

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    In Germany there were Was ist Was (what is what). I'm not sure if it's a transliteration or a different publisher

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    And once in a while they would say outdated bs like "dinasours died to a volcano."

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    a bunch of kids in the 90s just didn’t use anything

    probably part of the reason the world is the way it is today

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