What was your Google

[Guest]

When i was a lad, back in the days of no internet, my grandad bought me a set of books called "How it works" by a publisher called Marshall Cavendish, each fortnight when it arrived it had lots of exciting things about everything you could imagine, you got 7 binders with the complete A-Z in, so whenever i wanted to know something i looked in my How It Works books, these days i just Google to find stuff, what were you're books that taught you stuff, is there anyone out there that also had the how it works series.

 

[caLLous]

I didn't have a series of How It Works books, but I had a book called How It Works (or maybe How Stuff works). It had great artwork (really nice exploded diagrams of everything) and I loved it.

 

[Lazarus]

Encyclopedia Brittanica.

fecking all of them

Managed to get rid of them when I married - bloody wife knew everything

 

[babs]

I bought ALL of a 'collect a part each week' (you know the annoying crap adverts on TV where they try to get you to build a boat or a RC car that works out to about a billion pounds and takes 2 years) that was around in my youth called Quest. It was split into sections like technology, science, nature etc and most months came with a cool card cut-out-and-build ship or plane or something. Ended up with three full folders of brain juice.

 

[xane]

is there anyone out there that also had the how it works series.

/me raises hand, complete set in binders still on the bookshelf.

 

[haarewin]

had a complete set of encyclopedia brittanica as well as the entire 'how my body works' series (complete with freaky human body!), and a complete series of 'natural world' books or smt like that. they are all in the loft now.
i have about 20 psychology textbooks atm, too.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Believe it or not, the library.

It's a big building with these things called "books". You flip pages and find more text.

I'm not lying! It's a real place!

 

[TdC]

I'd read just about anything I could get my hands on

I even read lables on loo-refresher sprays and what not :/

 

[tankgirl_ni]

I had 'how it works'.. but missed a few installments.. and I had 'Quest' as well.. and some other one that helped you build a dolls house.. /

 

[Bodhi]

Books are for idiots who can't figure stuff out for themselves.

 

[Chilly]

Both parents have doctorates and I had a full set of the 1902 Ecyclop(ae)dia Brittanica, more available than I was ever able to learn

 

[moomin]

I'd eat a persons brains, thus absorbing all of their knowledge.


Please look at teh boobies thank you

 

[Draylor]

I had a full set of the 1902 Ecyclop(ae)dia Brittanica

1902? Guess the text was too faded for you to read it, explaining your speeling?

 

[dysfunction]

Encyclopedia Brittanica.

fecking all of them

same here

 

[]AC[dRuM]

Coming from a large Irish family we didn't have a set of nice leather encyclopedias. It was either the school library or public library and that was always out of date I suppose my Google was a bike ride, a library membership and some paper.. good exercise though

 

[Earl]

Encyclopedia Brittanica.

fecking all of them

I have them too!

 

[Tenko]

I had the Encyclopedia Brittanica, we even paid to get the yearly updates for awhile

We had lots of other books and encylopedia too (a couple of thousand in fact!) and though most were on a few particular subjects there was nearly always one somewhere with something in it.

Hehe, I remember having the piss taken out of me by a mate when I said that the front room in our house was called the library. He took it back when he saw it

 

[Mazling]

I had this. I laughed so hard at the wooly mammoths all the time.

 

[Chilly]

1902? Guess the text was too faded for you to read it, explaining your speeling?

bah fkoff! I can spell perfectly well when I can be arsed. And they were in very good condition, will probably make a few bob out og them one day.

 

[Mobius]

no...internet...?

You're shitting me!

 

[JBP|]

I had a thing called "Dad" which i mearly had to ask.

Allthough i think mine was broken as the usual response was "feck off to bed"

 

[Rubric]

I used to get a load of these weekly or fortnightly books called the Joy of Knowledge and also one called Discovery i think it was.

 

[Sharma]

Was the encylopaedia brittanica the big thick series of 8 books or was it the ones that went to 20 or something?

I had both of them, the big thick ones were an age old, the writing is still visible but he information is ancient.

 

[SilverHood]

I had a Websters Encylopedia, huuuge ass book with a tiny font, crammed full of everything I could possible want to know for school projects.

 

[Maljonic]

I just seemed to know stuff, don't know where I got it from, possibly school?

 

[Mazling]

Possibly BBC2, you great big anti-social twirp ?
















(I watched it too )

 

[Maljonic]

Television, I forgot all about that! Do people still watch those things now?