Then and Now

For many decades, sets of encyclopedias were located on the shelves in our school and town libraries and also in some people’s homes. An annual update would be available to purchase to show what current events happened during the year. Of course this was before we had the internet and we had never heard of Google or Wikipedia. Funk and Wagnalls discontinued printing a hard copy in 1997. Britannica started publishing in 1768 and the last printed copy was in 2010 but they continued with an online version in 2016. The Erdmans ad is from the 1983 DCI newspaper archives.