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Showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How big do I expect it to be?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

[–] [email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Nowadays there's Kiwix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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.