We had World Book Encyclopedia’s when I was a kid.
Sure enough my dad bought ‘em from a door to door salesman.
Taught me many things.....including how to read better.
I remember World Book. I will also guess that the info in those books was not as tainted as they would be today.
I saw a post on X yesterday where some young guy posted a pick of the space shuttle riding atop the airplane that was used to move it back to base. He was joking it was AI.
The guy had to be told that it wasn’t AI slop, but that was actually very real. Obviously, we have to wonder if they learn much of anything from the past in schools now.