When I was a kid in the 1980/90s, we had two encyclopedias at home: a 20 tome encyclopedia from 1905, and a three volume current one. At some point we got Microsoft Encarta, a CD-ROM encyclopedia.
It was far more common for people to say they don’t know something and refer to other’s expertise.
Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.
When I was a kid in the 1980/90s, we had two encyclopedias at home: a 20 tome encyclopedia from 1905, and a three volume current one. At some point we got Microsoft Encarta, a CD-ROM encyclopedia.
It was far more common for people to say they don’t know something and refer to other’s expertise.