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vga256 on Nostr: every now and then i mourn the disappearance of dorling kindersley's exceptional ...

every now and then i mourn the disappearance of dorling kindersley's exceptional 1990s multimedia CD-ROM titles like Incredible Cross-Sections: Stowaway! and The Way Things Work

today at the thrift store, i stumbled upon this 2010 edition of Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by DK.

the naturalist museum-style photography and incredibly dense and informative text was a reminder that although we lost some of the interactivity, the presentation is still as rich as ever.

the web of the late 2000s, contrary to common belief that wikipedia-answers-all, is a dead knowledge landscape compared to this single volume.

it presents a single, coherent, and consistent scientific view of the origins and development of organisms on earth. this is the kind of book that I would have hauled out as a kid, and pored over every single page.

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