WikiReader - Offline Wikipedia "The Internet without the Internet"

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Techmoan

Techmoan

Күн бұрын

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@Sir_Uncle_Ned
@Sir_Uncle_Ned 6 жыл бұрын
The only purpose I can really see for it is in a bunker for after the apocalypse so you can still keep the knowledge gained over the millenia.
@DFX2KX
@DFX2KX 6 жыл бұрын
There's also Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge", which is more or less exactly for that.
@pixelum2023
@pixelum2023 6 жыл бұрын
Until you run out of batteries.
@Psychodegu
@Psychodegu 6 жыл бұрын
rechargeable batteries.
@FinalManaTrigger
@FinalManaTrigger 6 жыл бұрын
Rechargeable batteries wear out too.
@antikommunistischaktion
@antikommunistischaktion 6 жыл бұрын
For such a low power device that would take a long time though.
@trea552
@trea552 6 жыл бұрын
this would be extremely useful in a survivival situation
@NativeVsColonial
@NativeVsColonial 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah Beargrills desperately needs that lol
@DenisNIKOBusarinov
@DenisNIKOBusarinov 5 жыл бұрын
The Most Original Gamer hahaha
@wehfgyuewaq833
@wehfgyuewaq833 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I would just type "how to survive:
@thomas_nl_
@thomas_nl_ 5 жыл бұрын
Wehfg Yuewaq You’d need the wikihow addon
@ErdeAnAlle
@ErdeAnAlle 5 жыл бұрын
Nah, Wikihow would be more useful, Wikipedia doesn't tell you how to make a fire with flints or a bow.
@lilycowlishaw2952
@lilycowlishaw2952 5 жыл бұрын
They missed the perfect chance to call it the wikipda
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 5 жыл бұрын
pdf?
@COMPOSITE.02
@COMPOSITE.02 5 жыл бұрын
@@garrysekelli6776 what
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 5 жыл бұрын
@@COMPOSITE.02 a pdf is a type of file. in programming like gif wad etc. never heard of a pda though but it might exist.
@701Builder
@701Builder 5 жыл бұрын
PDA is personal digital assistant which would have been a cool name for it WikiPDA
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 5 жыл бұрын
@@701Builder Ah now I understand.
@finn4375
@finn4375 5 жыл бұрын
Imagine the protagonists finding these in The Walking Dead.
@CanItAlready
@CanItAlready 5 жыл бұрын
Finn If they did find one Eugene would have to destroy it. Knowing stuff is really the only reason he's still alive.
@getgle
@getgle 5 жыл бұрын
@@CanItAlready Plot twist: Eugene has had a wiki reader the whole time and that's why he knows so much.
@CanItAlready
@CanItAlready 5 жыл бұрын
Getindor LOL
@markfuston2714
@markfuston2714 5 жыл бұрын
@@getgle Haha, wonder when we'll get that plot twist!
@kubastachu9860
@kubastachu9860 3 жыл бұрын
@@markfuston2714 as soon as manufacturer pays for product advertisement, Eugene will reveal his secret
@petercho7615
@petercho7615 5 жыл бұрын
Finally... when someone asks me if I could take one thing back in time.. i would take a wiki reader with me.
@ian_b
@ian_b 3 жыл бұрын
You'd need some way of making batteries. You could look it up on wikipedia.
@cameranmanner4701
@cameranmanner4701 3 жыл бұрын
@@ian_b not really you can probably buy a power supply and set to 3v and run leads into it. Or buy 20 of those AAA lithium ion batteries and bring 5v usb chargers, cycle through the batters when recharging. Now if you want to go back pre-electricy civilization. Bring a solar panel.
@dustojnikhummer
@dustojnikhummer Жыл бұрын
​@@ian_bBring a few batteries and start writing knowledge onto papyrus
@Tularis
@Tularis 6 жыл бұрын
They should have allowed you to connect it to a PC and Sync the Wiki....
@jasoones
@jasoones 6 жыл бұрын
i think you could, he did say you get online updates
@kamikatze8224
@kamikatze8224 5 жыл бұрын
But you dont have infinite storage
@goatskin4487
@goatskin4487 5 жыл бұрын
@@kamikatze8224 nothing has infinte storage
@kamikatze8224
@kamikatze8224 5 жыл бұрын
Jay Strange thank you wise man
@adrianTNT
@adrianTNT 5 жыл бұрын
@@goatskin4487 besides GoDaddy hosting :))))
@DavidDatura
@DavidDatura 6 жыл бұрын
“For future generations to mock” 🤣 still a device you can slip into your pocket containing all the combined knowledge of mankind would have been pure science fiction just a generation ago!
@fss1704
@fss1704 6 жыл бұрын
damn that thing is perfect for an apocalypse...
@kurtk7521
@kurtk7521 5 жыл бұрын
@@fss1704 They sent a box of some sorts with all kinds of knowledge to the moon in case we fuck this world up... So this type of shit isnt science fiction anymore.
@Y.M...
@Y.M... 5 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia doesn't teach, it confirms. It's a useful reference, but by no means is it useful to actually pass on knowledge. Maybe it can teach history and humanities, but the science needs textbooks and a different mindset. Science on Wikipedia: if you didn't already have a general idea, it will confuse more than help you.
@minindoalt
@minindoalt 5 жыл бұрын
literally the hitchhikers guide
@gluester55
@gluester55 5 жыл бұрын
Odang, 666 likes
@bortflong5734
@bortflong5734 6 жыл бұрын
Post-apocalypse, this would be incredibly valuable.
@RoobehTunes
@RoobehTunes 6 жыл бұрын
How else would you be able to inform your irradiated brethren to the details of the USS Altair?
@virtuaskimmer6714
@virtuaskimmer6714 6 жыл бұрын
EMT attack all circuits be fried and that honestly the most likely attack natural(sun burst cycle) or man made (high allitude nuke)
@paulsengupta971
@paulsengupta971 6 жыл бұрын
Keep it in a lead box.
@Nico42ke
@Nico42ke 6 жыл бұрын
Also space hitchhiking
@cultistofgyarloth
@cultistofgyarloth 6 жыл бұрын
There's decent offline Wikipedia readers for Android. Best bet for the apocalypse is probably to buy three dozen Chinese low-budget Android phones, three dozen solar panel micro-USB chargers, and hide them all over the planet like a squirrel. Or then, hide canned food and weapons instead :)
@nirad8026
@nirad8026 5 жыл бұрын
Imagine a watch-size, updated version of this, with a strong glass and solar charger. Perfect survival thing.
@donerbude6380
@donerbude6380 5 жыл бұрын
Identitäre Bewegung? Oh mann
@AffeAffelinTV
@AffeAffelinTV 5 жыл бұрын
@@donerbude6380 hallo, gekommen um das zu sagen infopage: IB ist rechtsradikal und wird vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet. gehören wie alle faschos geklatscht
@YamamotoSixtySix
@YamamotoSixtySix 5 жыл бұрын
Gewalt erzeugt nur mehr Gewalt... kleier tipp an euch linksradikalen mongos... (bin politisch mittig) linksextrem ist genauso scheisse wie rechtsextrem...
@donerbude6380
@donerbude6380 5 жыл бұрын
@@YamamotoSixtySix Denke rechtsextrem ist schlimmer als das es auch gegenwärtig (in Deutschland) mit Abstand deutlich heftigere Ausmaße annimmt. Ebenfalls ist rechte/rechtsextreme Ideologie deutlich heftiger. Und die IB, welche sich mit euphemistischen Bezeichnungen wie "Ethnopluralismus" für praktische Apartheid einsetzen, kann man wirklich nicht verteidigen :D (Keine Ahnung ob das was zur Sache tut, bin aber gesellschaftlich liberal und politisch/wirtschaftlich leicht links/links :)) )
@nirad8026
@nirad8026 5 жыл бұрын
What the fuck is going on with these German comments?? Am I missing something?
@Galm_1
@Galm_1 5 жыл бұрын
If you could install something on them, I swear, you will be seeing videos of people playing Doom on WikiReaders.
@_GF312_
@_GF312_ 5 жыл бұрын
But can it run crysis
@kospencer1
@kospencer1 5 жыл бұрын
It’s too slow for doom, and it’s running a very proprietary os, not even linux.
@DonVigaDeFierro
@DonVigaDeFierro 5 жыл бұрын
Yo buddy, still alive?
@-Burb
@-Burb 5 жыл бұрын
Spencer Ko If a Ti-84 can run doom, I bet this thing could too.
@kospencer1
@kospencer1 5 жыл бұрын
SquiDragon It’s a totally proprietary architecture running a proprietary OS, so it will be very hard to make it run doom, Ti84 is z80 of which many people are familiar with.
@fs6020
@fs6020 5 жыл бұрын
"I got transported into an another world with my wikireader"
@colmm6964
@colmm6964 5 жыл бұрын
Oh my god I want this
@kylerharris4246
@kylerharris4246 4 жыл бұрын
Basically doctor stone
@Kuraio
@Kuraio 6 жыл бұрын
It feels surreal seeing a capacitive touch panel on a low-res monochrome screen.
@no1DdC
@no1DdC 6 жыл бұрын
When this device came out, I had a phone with resistive touch screen that was full color. It came with a stylus, of course. It really was a transitional era. Android was still relatively unknown (my phone was still Java-based), the iPhone was brand new (and without any apps or app store), tablets were very bulky and slow.
@uriituw
@uriituw 6 жыл бұрын
I think it’s resistive touch.
@Kuraio
@Kuraio 6 жыл бұрын
uriituw You did not even watch halfway through the video did you?
@jamespmailer
@jamespmailer 6 жыл бұрын
Shame devices weren’t and probably won’t ever be manufactured to be more affordable like this. If this isn’t proof of late stage capitalism, not sure what is
@AnonymousUser77254
@AnonymousUser77254 6 жыл бұрын
J. P. Mailer this device was $99... You can buy an android phone cheaper than that these days.
@jamespayne5068
@jamespayne5068 6 жыл бұрын
I actually really want one of these for some reason
@Boemel
@Boemel 6 жыл бұрын
Is that a WikiReader in your pocket or are you just happy to see me ?
@sporehux8344
@sporehux8344 6 жыл бұрын
i need one for my post apocalypse bug out kit.
@redlaserfox3988
@redlaserfox3988 6 жыл бұрын
Me too
@Crazy_Borg
@Crazy_Borg 6 жыл бұрын
Sorry guys, after this video prices skyrocketed, of course!
@04dram04
@04dram04 6 жыл бұрын
You can download the whole thing on your phone
@shooting6lasers
@shooting6lasers 4 жыл бұрын
Between Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica, you truly have the sum of human knowledge in your hands, whether nuclear physics or the history of Chris Chan.
@thelegend8570
@thelegend8570 4 жыл бұрын
My brain: get one Me: why My brain: the apocalypse dude
@JuanC17Playz
@JuanC17Playz 4 жыл бұрын
Same I would get one
@yogert96
@yogert96 6 ай бұрын
Literally copped one for that reason lol I feel dumb
@RealLatinGeek
@RealLatinGeek 6 жыл бұрын
They were completely wrong in making these consumer gadgets. These would be absolutely perfect for education in developing nations or even developed nations where you don't want your students messing with their phones outside whatever apps or resources you give them. I see you got Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica in there, which suggests you could even load custom articles that the teacher selects and compiles for the low-res text-only screen. Full books are a tall order for reading on that, yes, but poetry, short stories, and second-language resources would be great. $100/student is SO much less than comparable devices schools provide like OLPC/Classmate PCs/Ipads/etc, and something that offers no distractions, can be carried in a pocket, and runs off AAs would be amazing.
@fss1704
@fss1704 6 жыл бұрын
damn yeah...
@buddyclem7328
@buddyclem7328 6 жыл бұрын
Even better: *2 × AAA batteries.
@GraveUypo
@GraveUypo 6 жыл бұрын
i dunno what you guys think developing nations are. garbage for you is garbage for them too. they may be poorer, but they're also in 'current year'. unless by developing nations you mean Zimbabwe and the likes.
@buddyclem7328
@buddyclem7328 6 жыл бұрын
@@GraveUypo Updates are available, but not officially, and the batteries last a long time.
@SalahEddineH
@SalahEddineH 6 жыл бұрын
GraveUypo I live in Morocco, which is almost a developing nation. I mean we have the latest iPhones and Cloud Computing companies everywhere and 4G internet in all major cities. BUT my students can't afford a good enough smartphone with reliable data plan, and those who do don't bring theirs to school because it would get stolen. So a relatively cheap device like that, distributed by the government, or even bought by the students like they buy their own calculators, would've done wonders. Instead our government wastes millions of dollars buying completely useless software licences from Microsoft, while so many school don't even have a good enough computer room to run most of it. (When I came in the Junior High school I was in has computers from 2001, most of them didn't even power on any more) So I can see the use in this, if it's cheap enough, it would be amazing for my students (It would obvious need to be loaded with the French and Arabic versions of Wikipedia) Cheers!
@russellwarren9595
@russellwarren9595 6 жыл бұрын
I feel it should have "Don't Panic" written on it in large friendly letters
@selwynlee7663
@selwynlee7663 6 жыл бұрын
I think we’re wandering into the realms of fantasy there, Jones.
@matebalog3924
@matebalog3924 6 жыл бұрын
And it should be a great easter egg if for first search for earth it would write out mostly harmless
@anononomous
@anononomous 6 жыл бұрын
If I had one the first thing I'd do is print out a "don't panic" sticker and put it on the back.
@spetsnaz1014
@spetsnaz1014 6 жыл бұрын
Russell Warren - Is it just me that nearly panicked when I saw the name 'Pandigital' ? - think I need a drink.
@russellwarren9595
@russellwarren9595 6 жыл бұрын
careful we all all know the effects of the gargleblaster, and besides being drunk is rather unpleasant - just ask a glass of water!
@mileshanna6480
@mileshanna6480 6 жыл бұрын
For anyone interested, Wikitaxi is a software that runs on most PCs and allows for the viewing of offline wikipedia archives, of which are updated every month or so.
@AdvanceAU
@AdvanceAU 6 жыл бұрын
Just replying so I can bookmark this comment for later. Not all heroes wear capes, you know.
@beeninja2539
@beeninja2539 6 жыл бұрын
Miles Hanna any mobile versions?
@zucker9887
@zucker9887 6 жыл бұрын
Hi
@TSLstudio2010
@TSLstudio2010 6 жыл бұрын
@Y M Go to history and click: comments :P
@PeterAbt
@PeterAbt 5 жыл бұрын
@@beeninja2539 Check out "kiwix" ;)
@tiefensucht
@tiefensucht 5 жыл бұрын
A random-key but no back-button.
@Dante-uk8pr
@Dante-uk8pr 5 жыл бұрын
It's the history button
@ohno7454
@ohno7454 5 жыл бұрын
6:37
@tiefensucht
@tiefensucht 5 жыл бұрын
@@ohno7454 Yeah, but this is no button. I mean "press the invisible pixel in the corner go back back" - who came up with this strange idea? :D
@Bos_Meong
@Bos_Meong 5 жыл бұрын
@@tiefensucht yeah just like i phone
@prismarinestars7471
@prismarinestars7471 5 жыл бұрын
You just hit the random key and hope it randomly takes you back to where you were before
@grumblekin
@grumblekin 6 жыл бұрын
This is perfect for bathroom reading: small, doesn't suck batteries, updatable, and easy on the eyes.
@WonderfulBoness
@WonderfulBoness 5 жыл бұрын
Drop it in the shitter then buy a new one
@marshmallowdub
@marshmallowdub 5 жыл бұрын
@b king LMFAOOOOOO
@Icalasari
@Icalasari 5 жыл бұрын
@b king Well I mean, I do. So. Yeah
@auzzgamesoi9947
@auzzgamesoi9947 5 жыл бұрын
I've never understood bathroom reading, being a reader myself, why handle things on purpose you don't need to while shitting?
@josue0001
@josue0001 5 жыл бұрын
Millennials found the Encyclopedia.
@isabellagokcen2633
@isabellagokcen2633 6 жыл бұрын
Offline Wikipedia was extremely useful about that time, especially for people who travel a lot. I used to have a 4gb copy of Wikipedia on my PDA back then which I used all the time and everyone was really impressed when I quickly looked something up. Don't forget that cheap internet wasn't available in every country back then, IIRC I had one of the cheaper plans and it was still ~20 cent per MB and even slower than an offline database search. Also shoutout to Openmoko
@Aenimia
@Aenimia 6 жыл бұрын
Still is a good choice for countries like Turkey where wikipedia is blocked. Of course you can always use a VPN :)
@Manueljlin
@Manueljlin 6 жыл бұрын
@@Aenimia or use the tor mirror
@zhiychen1626
@zhiychen1626 6 жыл бұрын
@@_blank-_ yeah and China also block it sometimes
@pannenkoekspek
@pannenkoekspek 6 жыл бұрын
I used to run the thing on my Nintendo ds
@emanatingf
@emanatingf 5 жыл бұрын
This would've been awesome to have in the mid 90's
@markelkhatib2524
@markelkhatib2524 5 жыл бұрын
The early 2000s too lol
@-DeScruff
@-DeScruff 5 жыл бұрын
Was about to say early 2000s as well. Basically any time period prior to I'd say... whenever smartphones and mobile internet matured enough.
@nathanrath2844
@nathanrath2844 5 жыл бұрын
Imagine having this at a dinner party in the 90s. Whenever people are arguing about who's right you could pull this out and settle the argument. God power
@mickfitz76
@mickfitz76 4 жыл бұрын
Trivia night win.
@exidy-yt
@exidy-yt 4 жыл бұрын
Funny you say that: for me, the 'Killer App' that made me give up my beloved Amiga PCs in favour of DOS/Windows PC clone PCs was Encarta, the encyclopaedia on CD-ROM. It was the most mind-blowing thing imaginable to realize you held much of the sum of Mankind's knowlege, libraries upon libraries of knowledge all encoded on a little shiny disk. It was a moment of sartori for me. I want one of these things now, LOL.
@HeAndHimStudios
@HeAndHimStudios 6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if someone can port Doom onto one
@faeranne
@faeranne 6 жыл бұрын
Sadly, the cpu is not powerful enough to push that many pixels that quickly and read the touch screen at the same time, all while running logic. There was a past attempt, but i believe they have since stopped. It did manage to render a screen, but it took several seconds, and couldn't respond to input.
@thinkbolt
@thinkbolt 6 жыл бұрын
Lo Bop, you beat me to it!
@mechanopixel2639
@mechanopixel2639 6 жыл бұрын
Based on the "GPIOTEST" and "SERIAL" application and the programming test pads on the circuit board it's probably possible to do that
@sersoft_corp
@sersoft_corp 6 жыл бұрын
But can it run Crysis?
@jong2359
@jong2359 6 жыл бұрын
They ported wolfenstein 3d to Texas Instruments graphing calculators. Wolfenstein83 is the name of the project. It would run on this for sure with some porting.
@MisterRorschach90
@MisterRorschach90 5 жыл бұрын
This is basically the perfect gadget for someone in an apocalypse. Give me this up to date and as long as I can find batteries I will be able to know anything.
@AlejandroRodolfoMendez
@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 5 жыл бұрын
Rechargeable batteries exist
@ShaddySoldier
@ShaddySoldier 5 жыл бұрын
No. You'll just know the shit on wikipedia
@AlejandroRodolfoMendez
@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 5 жыл бұрын
@Alejandro Márquez you can recharge USB device with a Dinamo and a bike if you need to
@saosaqii5807
@saosaqii5807 5 жыл бұрын
jordan secrist the SD card will eventually fail I prefer MDisc
@LongshotRecordsTV
@LongshotRecordsTV 5 жыл бұрын
a dial on the side would have been nice to use in scrolling through the articles.
@joshpayne4015
@joshpayne4015 6 жыл бұрын
The UK Prime Minister is... "What's-her-face" -- brilliant!
@freepress8451
@freepress8451 6 жыл бұрын
She reminds me of Mr Bean kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYamg3SfepeBpck
@sayresyDevino
@sayresyDevino 6 жыл бұрын
>>The MAYBOT 2000 disco series
@richandiben
@richandiben 6 жыл бұрын
No! Mr Burns ;)
@sayresyDevino
@sayresyDevino 6 жыл бұрын
Trump has a massive following amongst us plebs.
@morph-
@morph- 6 жыл бұрын
The rite arnswe!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@SkeletonSyskey
@SkeletonSyskey 6 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Mobile Internet using "WAP"
@peanutmans0
@peanutmans0 6 жыл бұрын
Oh man those days were the worst
@butre.
@butre. 6 жыл бұрын
most expensive masturbation habit i ever had tbh
@21minute
@21minute 6 жыл бұрын
Ahh, those late night days...
@eduardoavila646
@eduardoavila646 6 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah! What horrible days!
@MarcinKralka
@MarcinKralka 6 жыл бұрын
Do you remember Wapedia, that was cool :D
@sbrazenor2
@sbrazenor2 6 жыл бұрын
You can have Wikipedia on your phone offline as well. Kiwix is the name of the application and then you download the repository. It's much bigger now, especially if you want the images.
@garywheeler7039
@garywheeler7039 6 жыл бұрын
How big is Wikipedia in English these days I wonder, with illustrations.
@garywheeler7039
@garywheeler7039 6 жыл бұрын
K.D.P. Ross: a few minutes after I left that message, I found a video that mentions a special program Kiwix, that save it all on a 128 gig mini SD card: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5_YhZKPe6ilq7c as a way to save everything in case of emergency, disaster etc.
@thecringelord69
@thecringelord69 5 жыл бұрын
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Earth Edition
@ShakeItLittleTina
@ShakeItLittleTina 5 жыл бұрын
Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Earth
@dragonick2947
@dragonick2947 4 жыл бұрын
@@ShakeItLittleTina And a little bit of space.
@TheSmart-CasualGamer
@TheSmart-CasualGamer 3 жыл бұрын
Mostly harmless.
@cageybee7221
@cageybee7221 4 жыл бұрын
"how to build shelter" "how to survive nuclear fallout" yeah, this thing has a use. a great use.
@kTHElidd
@kTHElidd 6 жыл бұрын
What a beautifully random piece of tech
@CalumRaasay
@CalumRaasay 6 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough this would be perfect for me when I'm traveling and camping without phone signal. I'm forever reading books and wanting to look up things mentioned and referenced!
@kwastek
@kwastek 6 жыл бұрын
It's a shame it didn't take off. Really a great idea and a great device.
@pizzapartynightmarez393
@pizzapartynightmarez393 6 жыл бұрын
The device was far too limited, screen was too small, no games included, not enough buttons, no wifi, no backlit display. The idea was interesting but the execution was garbage.
@drmegaman
@drmegaman 6 жыл бұрын
I like the idea of it but it strikes me as something you'd see gathering dust in the corner at Sharper Image. It's hard to sell things like that in the smartphone age. It'd be fun to keep knocking around the house when I want to randomly read something, but these days, those cheap Amazon tablets are half the price and can do so much more.
@zedeighty
@zedeighty 6 жыл бұрын
I think it was a neat idea too. Unfortunately, I think they launched it in the wrong countries. If this thing had been released in parts of the world without the Internet or even reliable electricity, it might have been more successful. I can't see anything in the tech to justify that $99 price tag, either.
@kaisersoymilk6912
@kaisersoymilk6912 6 жыл бұрын
The problem is that we always have internet on our phones, so there's really no reason to use it (oh, and if you go to a place without internet you can always download the entire Wikipedia and put it on you phone's sdcard).
@zak8953
@zak8953 6 жыл бұрын
Check out Kiwix.
@javagirlma
@javagirlma 6 жыл бұрын
You sure are the master of finding obscure technologies for your program. I don't think the world will ever run out of obscure things for you to highlight.
@the-hd5cx
@the-hd5cx 5 жыл бұрын
dude just google it Sure, just let me take my *_WIKIPDA INTERNET WITHOUT INTERNET_*
@jmalmsten
@jmalmsten 6 жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, the Hitchhikers Guide recieved wireless updates via the sub-etha waveband ... So it's not entirely offline. More like a smart phone without freemium games...
@TheProfessor529
@TheProfessor529 6 жыл бұрын
If HGG had been written today, the Guide would be an Android app and Ford would have tinkered with Arthur's phone to give it inter-stellar coverage like Doctor Who.
@TheProfessor529
@TheProfessor529 6 жыл бұрын
If they do another film or TV adaptation, they should totally do that. You could have 'Don't Panic' be the app's boot screen.
@anononomous
@anononomous 6 жыл бұрын
It required a (sub-etha) connection to update the database was otherwise fully functional without a connection. There were notable incidences of a lack of updates and out of date/inaccurate information being problematic. ...So it is very similar to this.
@12gauge_shawtyy
@12gauge_shawtyy 6 жыл бұрын
It must be so surreal seeing a Wikipedia article about yourself
@anononomous
@anononomous 6 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZbin#User_comments
@Connie_TinuityError
@Connie_TinuityError 6 жыл бұрын
+anononomous That also includes you
@ekoms108
@ekoms108 6 жыл бұрын
Its not
@axelvetter
@axelvetter 6 жыл бұрын
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techmoan on German Wikipedia
@XaneMyers
@XaneMyers 6 жыл бұрын
If only there was a Xane Myers page about myself, but I'll have to become popular before that'll ever happen. I think I read rules preventing the person from writing a Wikipedia page about themselves, so this may never happen with my channel's current low view counts.
@jamescorrall6535
@jamescorrall6535 6 жыл бұрын
I had one of these when I was at university, basically bought it as a curiosity. My understanding is that one of the intended uses was for school children in developing nations where regular internet access may be difficult to find. Last I heard (prior to bankruptcy etc) they were being issued by the government of one of the Indian provinces.
@neoasura
@neoasura 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, you can download the entire Wikipedia for offline use. You can get different versions, one with text only, others with the photos. The one with everything including photos is 83gb as of 2020, which can easily fit on a micro SD card now. I recommend downloading it, you never know when something might change for the worse.
@Jaymo89
@Jaymo89 5 жыл бұрын
Skyrim has been released on the device.
@CaptainUsopp118
@CaptainUsopp118 5 жыл бұрын
but can it run Crysis ?
@memesfromdeepspace1075
@memesfromdeepspace1075 5 жыл бұрын
No ITS not
@idunno402
@idunno402 5 жыл бұрын
shut the fuck up Todd
@memesfromdeepspace1075
@memesfromdeepspace1075 5 жыл бұрын
@The Almighty Thanos immortal now you fall on my trap
@stinkymetalhead200
@stinkymetalhead200 5 жыл бұрын
@The Almighty Thanos r/itswooooshwith4os
@js5183
@js5183 6 жыл бұрын
After the apocalypse they will come from miles around to ask questions of my pocket Wikipedia!
@JohnGotts
@JohnGotts 6 жыл бұрын
And you would find fresh batteries where?
@MrEdrftgyuji
@MrEdrftgyuji 6 жыл бұрын
@@JohnGotts You probably could power this device from a fruit battery or a small photoelectric cell that can supply 3V - I can't imagine it draws much current.
@MrMega200
@MrMega200 6 жыл бұрын
Exactly, two AAs are only 3 volts.
@MarkTheMorose
@MarkTheMorose 6 жыл бұрын
The number one question they'll ask is 'Can it run Crysis?'
@steveofx23
@steveofx23 6 жыл бұрын
"Tell me about a time before The Google took over our world..."
@njd834
@njd834 6 жыл бұрын
How to obtain all possible human knowledge: *Step 1:* Buy book "What they teach you at Harvard Business School" *Step 2:* Buy book "What they *don't* teach you at Harvard Business School" *Step 3:* You now hold the secrets of the universe
@eliaschnl
@eliaschnl 6 жыл бұрын
I remember when i didn't have internet on my phone i would save wikipedia articles for offline reading on the android app.
@eliaschnl
@eliaschnl 6 жыл бұрын
@Marc Carran Yes, you are right but that was a wifi network at school. I didn't have 3g on my phone or internet at home.
@spkoftdvl
@spkoftdvl 6 жыл бұрын
Dude, is not too hard to understand... Yeas, you can have the internet in the first play, but when you get to your home dont. I used to do the same with my java cellphon back in 2003/4. Enter internet use a lot of my data credit, I have to save the page o the browser to read later in the bus or my house.. Right @SuperDoomz ?
@NonsensicalSpudz
@NonsensicalSpudz 6 жыл бұрын
maybe saying you didn't have internet. and then going on to say you downloaded them using the internet...on your phone...
@yasirsaheed
@yasirsaheed 6 жыл бұрын
NonsensicalVids He probably used his android phone without a SIM card, or maybe he couldn't afford a data package or the mobile data charges.
@eliaschnl
@eliaschnl 6 жыл бұрын
Ok, so to clear up when i was younger i didn't have internet on my phone, only calls and texts. I didn't have any other internet connections at home either. So the only internet access i could use was either school wifi or library wifi. I would use that wifi to save the articles for offline reading. So when i don't have access to those wifi networks i can read the articles without a 3g or any other internet.
@MrGeforcerFX
@MrGeforcerFX 6 жыл бұрын
I couldn't have internet in my room when I was a kid so I had the cd based encyclopedias, I remember going from 1995 to 2002 and getting high res pictures and video clips of events happening, changed my world. Now I spend thousands of hours a year on wikipedia, your description of it is spot on, it teaches you the basics of something and is a jumping off point for further research.
@user-oz4mo9wn7u
@user-oz4mo9wn7u 5 жыл бұрын
i actually kind of like the idea they had with this, sad how it wasn't executed very well, they could've probably done a lot more with it
@JamesWilliamStevenParker
@JamesWilliamStevenParker Жыл бұрын
Curiously, what did they do (or not do) that caused it not to succeed do you reckon? :) I've got this device, and I bought it for a reason. It was (and still is) an amazing piece of kit.
@Fuzimi
@Fuzimi 6 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering what's on the microSD card (what file system it uses etc.)
@jasonblalock4429
@jasonblalock4429 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and along with, how easy it would be to convert wiki databases for yourself. I could actually see that having a lot of appeal to backpackers, world travelers (hitchhikers ;->), anyone would who potentially find themselves in a situation where they were out of cell contact. Not to mention preppers and the like. Tiny, lightweight, running for ages on a single set of batteries... That's the sort of thing someone could throw in their backpack and it'll always be there when they really need it.
@zhongfu
@zhongfu 6 жыл бұрын
fat32. you can run programs written in Forth on it too. fwiw they also have tools to convert current Wikipedia dumps to their format, but it's a pain to get working now that it's been 6 years since it was last updated (?)
@TheProfessor529
@TheProfessor529 6 жыл бұрын
So a specialized Kindle, then.
@kaitlyn__L
@kaitlyn__L 6 жыл бұрын
Plus you could probably load up any DRM-free ebooks if you went to the trouble of converting, say, chapters to wiki articles or whatnot. I've got to imagine that person on eBay is charging a decent markup considering the niche appeal, but many people who already mess around with stuff like installing Linux onto "handheld messengers" could probably do it for free....
@GLITCH_-.-
@GLITCH_-.- 6 жыл бұрын
Zhongfu Li: " you can run programs written in Forth on it too." Oh, can you? I didn't know. *Really? That's new to me! I WONDER WHY TECHMOAN DIDN'T TELL US!! OH WHAT A SHAME!!!* :)
@laptop006
@laptop006 6 жыл бұрын
If you'd looked up the Australian prime minister it would have narrowed it down since ours last even less time.
@JonnyRobbie
@JonnyRobbie 6 жыл бұрын
or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today
@steviebboy69
@steviebboy69 6 жыл бұрын
They chop and change and fight among each other. They are all the same anyway.
@SianaGearz
@SianaGearz 6 жыл бұрын
Is it the famed wild life, do you expose them to spiders, crocodiles, and all manner of deadly beast as a matter of prime ministerial duty?
@andrewgwilliam4831
@andrewgwilliam4831 6 жыл бұрын
That's probably why they went bust; it was impossible to keep up!
@eggaweb
@eggaweb 6 жыл бұрын
Rudd, Gillard, Rudd, Abbot, Turnbull and now Morrison. Did I miss any?
@fiatlux8828
@fiatlux8828 6 жыл бұрын
I remember reading an article a while back about the South Korean military and some activist groups sending balloons into North Korea that had devices like these attached to them. They'd have offline wikipedia, an archive of South Korean newspapers, books, and music. The books part apparently had stuff like Korean and world history, fiction novels, poetry, etc. But the big thing was that they included a digital copy of the bible on it, since the Christian community in North Korea seems to be the one of the bigger civilian resistance movements there and were more likely to keep the device instead of turning it over to the authorities.
@mwbgaming28
@mwbgaming28 6 жыл бұрын
i support everything but including religious drivel in the devices nothing good comes from religion (look at islam as a prime example)
@georgewilson7432
@georgewilson7432 6 жыл бұрын
You had to ruin it, hadn't you? You couldn't resist.
@disconnectedcable9084
@disconnectedcable9084 6 жыл бұрын
Oh come on, we get it. You despise Islam and religion but please state that fact on an argument where it calls for 'eh? We don't need to open this up when talking about North Korea and how devices such as these help people when they live in a forced dictatorship.
@mwbgaming28
@mwbgaming28 6 жыл бұрын
but they made the mistage of including religious garbage on it religion is banned in north korea for a reason and the ban is one of the few north korean laws i actually agree with they should have just shipped the device without any religious bullshit
@SalahEddineH
@SalahEddineH 6 жыл бұрын
MWB Gaming, I understand why you feel that way (As an ex-muslim who's been blinded by religious dogma for almost 25 years, because I simply believed what my parents told me). But banning religion is often just as bad as forcing it on people. Banning religion makes people cling to it even more and feel like you're trying to take the truth from them, rather than educate them about what the truth actually is. Putting the bible in the packs, to dissuade some groups of people from destroying it or turning it over to the authorities does serve a purpose, as ultimately it leads to people being more educated about what's out there. Just like so many governmental documents and decrees here in Morocco start with religious language and Quraan verses, so that Muslims (nearly everyone here) can't wipe their ass with them or throw them away. They do that to exploit people's beliefs in order to give their message more value. You might feel that it does more harm than good, to include the bible there, and you may be right, I don't know, but education and knowledge is the doom of religion. So using religion as a pretext to educate people will, in my opinion, lead away from the religious premise used in the first place, and we end up with enlightened and informed people. Or at least that was the intended purpose. Cheers!
@AndreaFrancoise
@AndreaFrancoise 5 жыл бұрын
And 1 year down the road.... rip, no more services relating to WikiReader can be found on eBay
@GoldFish621
@GoldFish621 5 жыл бұрын
This has been in my recommended for about 3 years
@ivantheturtle3701
@ivantheturtle3701 5 жыл бұрын
Congrats
@Nightcaat
@Nightcaat 4 жыл бұрын
That’s strange, because it came out 17 months ago.
@JieRai
@JieRai 6 жыл бұрын
Honestly I'd buy that off you if you don't want it :) It's honestly a neat piece of history that would be awesome to own and use
@NOWUNITEDUPDATES
@NOWUNITEDUPDATES 5 жыл бұрын
SIDA smh
@CynicalDuty
@CynicalDuty 5 жыл бұрын
@@9965paul ur parents ever teach u to stfu?
@Detlevboi
@Detlevboi 5 жыл бұрын
@@CynicalDuty are you seriously whiteknighting a dude in the youtube comments?
@tinyspeaker
@tinyspeaker 5 жыл бұрын
@@9965paul underrated comment
@CynicalDuty
@CynicalDuty 5 жыл бұрын
@@Detlevboi aren't you whiteknighting yourself? lmfaoo
@nabukuma
@nabukuma 6 жыл бұрын
Ideal for time travellers into the past, or post apocalyptic futures :D
@JulianusMaximianus
@JulianusMaximianus 6 жыл бұрын
You need to tell Apex TV about this. They have several time travellers featured on their channel. I'm sure they'd love something like this to ruin there delusion.
@Sandium
@Sandium 6 жыл бұрын
Julianus Maximianus I know I’ll seem like a dick but, their*
@SurvivalMistakes
@SurvivalMistakes 6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@Vysair
@Vysair 6 жыл бұрын
Too bad these thing suck and im sure a phone with *that* solar panel case did a much better job
@tomrade344
@tomrade344 6 жыл бұрын
The Techmoan Effect is gonna be ridiculous for this one.
@Gaminginvader-f4h
@Gaminginvader-f4h 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, i'm glad I got one a few years ago, cause they've been going up in price the past year or two.
@fordtechchris
@fordtechchris 6 жыл бұрын
Just checked.... 2 available 49 and 75. I could buy both and double my money in a week, lol
@codapepper7764
@codapepper7764 6 жыл бұрын
This would actually be really useful for limited preparation events in speech and debate. Normally competitors will have a prep time ranging from 5 to 30 minutes and can only use offline resources. One way my team goes about this is to download Wikipedia onto laptops and then use them offline in prep but one of these could be legitimately very useful.
@TruFalco
@TruFalco 6 жыл бұрын
My grandmother would LOVE this. She has no internet but loves reading stuff and sometimes asks me something.
@purplefuku
@purplefuku 6 жыл бұрын
Always fun to see devices like this! Maybe I’m being silly, but I think it was a noble attempt at providing Wikipedia to people offline. The timing was just bad... I could see a use case for something like this (or perhaps these days: a VERY low cost tablet with no built in Wi-Fi) with preloaded reference books/public domain books/Wikipedia/Dictionaries/Foreign Language books/etc being appealing to schools on a tight budget and/or who want devices to give students without worrying about them getting on the internet...
@josuelservin2409
@josuelservin2409 6 жыл бұрын
There are applications that do exactly this, check out Kiwix, it works on pc, mac, Linux and Android!
@purplefuku
@purplefuku 6 жыл бұрын
Jasper Janssen: Great points! I agree that it’s probably impractical in this day & age, given mass production being able to get the costs down low enough to be affordable, but the thought behind no Wi-Fi hardware was for the piece of mind for teachers / being able to convince a school board/parents/etc that there’s “absolutely” no way to access the internet on such a hypothetical device. The problem still lies that, as much as you can lock down things with software, kids are smart and will always find a way! 😄
@TheProfessor529
@TheProfessor529 6 жыл бұрын
So a specialized Kindle, then.
@DJBillyQ
@DJBillyQ 6 жыл бұрын
I actually made a project like this! Check out (no spaces): signal bundle . com
@andrewvernon4664
@andrewvernon4664 5 жыл бұрын
If I had known of this product's existence I definitely would have bought one. It's a shame how so many interesting products have been overlooked simply because people haven't heard of it. It makes me wonder what technology exists right now that I am currently unaware of that will become featured in one of these videos 10 years from now.
@GrzesiekJedenastka
@GrzesiekJedenastka 5 жыл бұрын
I ACTUALLY wanted tu buy this right now, but I can't find any...
@Thedamped
@Thedamped 5 жыл бұрын
Not sure where you're located but there's some listed on ebay.
@nickg1307
@nickg1307 5 жыл бұрын
@@kyledavidson4604 you would still need internet access?
@draco5991rep
@draco5991rep 5 жыл бұрын
@@kyledavidson4604 but can it browse the Wikipedia offline?
@MrUtuber29
@MrUtuber29 5 жыл бұрын
@@nickg1307 you can download entire Wikipedia on your preferred device, though.
@davei2938
@davei2938 5 жыл бұрын
Amazon 129
@bcostin
@bcostin 6 жыл бұрын
I bought one of these (deeply discounted) for an older relative who didn't have easy access to any sort of an Internet connection. He enjoyed it quite a bit. It's simple to use, easy enough to read in good light, and lasted forever on batteries. It gave him a quick way to refresh his memory on various topics, which is all he really wanted. Unfortunately it died a year or two later.
@JasonB808
@JasonB808 5 жыл бұрын
“The UK prime minister is what’s her face”😂
@IngeldGaming
@IngeldGaming 6 жыл бұрын
This video just gave that chap on eBay that offers database updates a few hundred or perhaps even a few thousand more customers.
@TheProfessor529
@TheProfessor529 6 жыл бұрын
I give it a couple of days before 'As Seen on Techmoan' is added to the pages descrption.
@mac2309zzz
@mac2309zzz 6 жыл бұрын
'We;ve documented it here for future generations to mock'! Brilliant!
@donwald3436
@donwald3436 5 жыл бұрын
The UK prime minister isn’t wosserface any more, it’s wossitshair.
@camazotzz
@camazotzz 5 жыл бұрын
Boris Yeltsin
@ChrisTheGregory
@ChrisTheGregory 6 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: The FORTH language was also used for the Philae lander, as well as the 1986 game Starflight.
@ProtoPropski
@ProtoPropski 5 жыл бұрын
If the world comes to an abrupt end at least I have a detailed offline encyclopedia of my favorite vocational hotspots, ski resorts, and spooky happenings.
@jennysbloke
@jennysbloke 6 жыл бұрын
05:58. "Whatserface" 😄 Epic. You never fail to entertain and inform, Matt. Thanks always.
@LeonMatthews
@LeonMatthews 6 жыл бұрын
I actually bought a bunch of these one Christmas. Seems silly now perhaps, but being able to get all of Wikipedia in a portable format ten years ago - plus dictionaries and thesaurii and a fair few other references was pretty cool in the pre-smartphone age...
@KittyKatKya
@KittyKatKya 6 жыл бұрын
Oh god, that ghosting.
@johnfrancisdoe1563
@johnfrancisdoe1563 6 жыл бұрын
Kitty KatKya Look up E-ink on your device for a possible technical explanation.
@no1DdC
@no1DdC 6 жыл бұрын
This does not use e-ink. Instead, it just has a simple reflective monochrome dot-matrix LCD screen.
@Nathan-lw8oq
@Nathan-lw8oq 6 жыл бұрын
Man, game boy had a better screen than this.
@buddyclem7328
@buddyclem7328 6 жыл бұрын
It's enough to bring back feelings of nostalgia.
@SOCXOXO
@SOCXOXO 6 жыл бұрын
It's at least bearable
@qwws3379
@qwws3379 5 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad he included Tim and Erick in this
@billylardner
@billylardner 6 жыл бұрын
“Clearly this didn’t PAN out for them” Made my day
@Toleich
@Toleich 6 жыл бұрын
Great to market to Preppers. So they can Wiki in their bunkers when the world ends.
@namebrandmason
@namebrandmason 6 жыл бұрын
Think they could manage to load conservapedia on one?
@satibel
@satibel 6 жыл бұрын
make the case cammo and add a "just add water" battery pack, and I could totally see it.
@cypheir
@cypheir 5 жыл бұрын
@@namebrandmason Yeah, because Phyllis Schlafly's son has a truly unbiased opinion on history. It's like the Fox News version of history and reality.
@ichbinein123
@ichbinein123 6 жыл бұрын
1:24 I love that sketch. The Innernette, from Cinco technology!
@thequietkid6454
@thequietkid6454 5 жыл бұрын
"It's just a calculator" "Why are you taking this to History?"
@rochester212
@rochester212 6 жыл бұрын
Also, outdated encyclopedias are very much still useful for those people(me) who study culture and history. Views on specific historic events change over time, the internet doesn`t really keep old info, everything changes. This is why prints and offline access is paramount.
@vresnuil
@vresnuil Жыл бұрын
Now with offline LLMs that can answer questions in natural language, even with your voice, this has been blown out of the water.
@DrekiTech
@DrekiTech 6 жыл бұрын
Would be useful in an apocalypse where there's no longer internet access. Should put it in your survival bag! :)
@dr.dylansgame5583
@dr.dylansgame5583 6 жыл бұрын
true if you get hurt bad and don't know medical procedure this could actually have some life saving value or how to make clean water and use food better
@Lewis.Alcindor
@Lewis.Alcindor 5 жыл бұрын
The default text, pixel size, and response time is reminiscent of my old Franklin electronic dictionary.
@EmeraldLavigne
@EmeraldLavigne 6 жыл бұрын
Regarding What's-Her-Face: "Don't you think she looks tired?"
@Abigart69
@Abigart69 5 жыл бұрын
Navneeth Lal lmao
@RK-ep8qy
@RK-ep8qy 5 жыл бұрын
Yes we know who you are
@stormbird451
@stormbird451 4 жыл бұрын
I bought two of these! One was for my father (who still doesn't have a smart phone) and he loved it. He used it for several years. For the time, it wasn't a bad device.
@johnbeauvais3159
@johnbeauvais3159 5 жыл бұрын
The perfect device if you get sent back in time via Final Countdown type storm. Seriously though this thing is oddly adorable, like it's trying it's hardest to be helpful even though it has less processing power than the Apollo program
@andysim232
@andysim232 6 жыл бұрын
They need one of these but shielded against Apocalyptic conditions including EM damage. Containing all the info you need to rebuild the human race including how to build a stable genetic base without interbreading.
@bloodyfx1065
@bloodyfx1065 6 жыл бұрын
There is one actually, the thing is that nasa throw it to the space.
@mwbgaming28
@mwbgaming28 6 жыл бұрын
just lock all the religious entries behind a password that is never written down
@bear8ful
@bear8ful 6 жыл бұрын
MWB Gaming oo
@satibel
@satibel 6 жыл бұрын
@@mwbgaming28 the password for each religion is the name of their prophet, everything went right until someone typed cthulu.
@piperbarlow1672
@piperbarlow1672 6 жыл бұрын
Yes, interbreading, wouldnt want your rye with your whole grain would you
6 жыл бұрын
Where was the guy that just said "lets just make an offline Wikipedia app"? Instead they R&D some kind of XL tamagotchi. Mental!
@TheProfessor529
@TheProfessor529 6 жыл бұрын
This WAS made only a year after the iPhone came out. It was a crazy time.
@lollo_0224
@lollo_0224 5 жыл бұрын
Teachers and boomers: *intense frustration noise*
@Popk1ller
@Popk1ller 6 жыл бұрын
re-introduce that device with offline youtube :D
@ThatEsepe
@ThatEsepe 5 жыл бұрын
You deserve more likes.
@NativeVsColonial
@NativeVsColonial 5 жыл бұрын
With 999999999999999999999999999PB stored data offline :D Just cost of a entire Google data center :)
@blackboxbs8642
@blackboxbs8642 5 жыл бұрын
its possible in future
@trent1776
@trent1776 5 жыл бұрын
@@blackboxbs8642 are you a time traveler
@blackboxbs8642
@blackboxbs8642 5 жыл бұрын
skidmefella how did you know?
@SKOjy113
@SKOjy113 5 жыл бұрын
I was always so fascinated by this device. I remember seeing it all over for a while back in the day. Makes me wish I bought one then, it's rather little thing
@alexkuhn5078
@alexkuhn5078 6 жыл бұрын
"The USS Altair? That's pretty random..." lol
@MatlawtheGeek
@MatlawtheGeek 6 жыл бұрын
I have one, sadly the touch screen has gone bad, and nearly half of the keyboard doesn't respond. Other than that it looks brand new. I actually used to read the heck out of this thing before that cheap "Team" microSD card died. It's 2018 and I still don't use mobile Internet, so for me the WikiReader was a great way to browse Wikipedia. Anyone has a replacement screen for one of these?
@zachburke8906
@zachburke8906 6 жыл бұрын
Matlaw the Geek probably cheaper to just replace the unit.
@l0n3ly_7ree
@l0n3ly_7ree 6 жыл бұрын
Google kiwix, It allows you to browse Wikipedia offline in different devices.
@PeterAbt
@PeterAbt 6 жыл бұрын
I use Kiwix on my Android phone and now I can read the whole wiki (with images!) everywhere ;)
@pinkyphenolphthalene5765
@pinkyphenolphthalene5765 6 жыл бұрын
how did you download Wikipedia on it
@landofgrundo
@landofgrundo 5 жыл бұрын
Hey I don’t have a replacement screen but I have a version of wiki for schools on a cd somewhere. Maybe I could send you the files and you could burn them onto a cd? Message me.
@DriversofOttawa
@DriversofOttawa 6 жыл бұрын
10:41 Notice the spelling mistake UniDispaly Inc.
@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703
@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703 6 жыл бұрын
I couldn't see any spleling mistaek.
@aryanbhasin3316
@aryanbhasin3316 6 жыл бұрын
@@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703 unidispaly
@liamsemicolon
@liamsemicolon 6 жыл бұрын
@@aryanbhasin3316 r/owoosh
@jesuscrusto9726
@jesuscrusto9726 6 жыл бұрын
Memez4Life .3. what do yuo maen
@eribetra
@eribetra 6 жыл бұрын
No. You are dumb, there's no spleling mistake...
@optillian4182
@optillian4182 5 жыл бұрын
It's like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the real world, but without the sense of humor and less mentions of towels.
@Ninja-Alinja
@Ninja-Alinja 6 жыл бұрын
I had a Wikipedia database on my IPAQ PDA (that was like a smartphone without the phone and camera part, but everything else, GPS, games, calendar, email, WiFi...) in around 2004-2008, right up to the iPhone. That was free, fast, easy to use and could be downloaded on a 1GB SD card. It contained pretty much all the Wikipedia articles at the time, but without the media to same memory.
@JamesWilliamStevenParker
@JamesWilliamStevenParker Жыл бұрын
As a survivalist tool for preserving an offline backup of all human knowledge in the event of a war (for example [I live in Europe, but not thankfully near Ukraine]), this device is priceless. No internet, no need for electricity (it uses 2x AA batteries), and having GOT this device... it's a powerful fallback instrument.
@folksurvival
@folksurvival Жыл бұрын
OK but Wikipedia doesn't contain all human knowledge so what are the other tools you are/would use?
@dariaxx2355
@dariaxx2355 6 жыл бұрын
I always was so fascinated by this and wanted one of them, though it was just the coolest thing!
@roucoupse
@roucoupse 5 жыл бұрын
you forgot to mention it was faster with your 8gb sdcard. So the relatively slowness seems to have something to do with the speed of the cards.
@bananachild1936
@bananachild1936 5 жыл бұрын
This is a really handy device to hold on to no matter where you go. It's always nice to have something to read on when you literally have nothing else to do.
@hufficag
@hufficag 4 жыл бұрын
There was a project to compress and prune the wiki database to fit standard sizes, including 1GB to fit on a 1GB SD card, and I had the wikipedia on my Palm Pilot around 2008 or 2009. It's useful when you're a nerd and you want to leave the house, go to the park, and you're chatting about something, and you can look up a reference in your pocket. There was a 128MB version as well, with just the main articles.
@FredGandt
@FredGandt 6 жыл бұрын
Cute; thanks for the show-and-tell :) In case you or other viewers were not aware: Wikipedia is available as a free database download, and there are many purpose designed tools to read the DB. Not entirely "offline" since one needs to download it to start off and DL updates, but convenient for remote/offline access (e.g. camping holiday) after the initial setup. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
@DanielBartholomew
@DanielBartholomew 6 жыл бұрын
Very cool device. It's a shame that it didn't catch on.
@splatbot8091
@splatbot8091 5 жыл бұрын
I remember getting this a few years ago. It was quite useful.
@dunther
@dunther 3 жыл бұрын
My WikiReader is still going strong a decade later. I've only gone through about three sets of batteries. And yep. It's small and light enough that I toss it in my backpack any time I'm headed into the wilderness. The data is way out of date now, and longer articles were abridged anyway, but if the apocalypse comes while I'm out I'll at least be able to regale the children of the rising mutant generation with the amazing story of... Random button says: the Geneva Steel company of Vineyard, Utah. Classic random button.
@xj-vn4eo
@xj-vn4eo 5 жыл бұрын
It useless if you have easily accessible and affordable internet, which is something many people I assume take for granted given the comments in this video. For a person who struggles with internet access from time to time, I really appreciate the idea behind it. I occasionally print out articles on Wikipedia just so that I can read it on paper, independent on device battery or internet access.
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