Jimmy Wales
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And so people did.
They copied a few articles in.
And then we were looking at them.
And you think, oh, right, you'll get the article about Thomas Jefferson.
Like, what could possibly have changed?
What has changed?
Yeah.
I mean, a lot.
Like, it's kind of, you know, oh, ancient Egypt.
Surely they had it all figured out by, you know, there's been a lot of archaeology and things like that.
And so, you know, like, I actually dug around.
I mean, I found in my mom's house an old encyclopedia.
I don't remember which brand it was, but...
You know, it's the article on bicycle.
It said, bicycle, men use it to go to work and women use it to go shopping.
Wow.
Like, OK, yeah, maybe maybe that's not really the best definition of bicycle in the in the modern day.
Yeah, because why would a woman wouldn't have a job or anything?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's interesting when people if they say you shouldn't use an encyclopedia, I wasn't allowed to use Britannica and cite it.