Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...

The final edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has almost sold out after nostalgic readers rushed to acquire their own copies of the 32-volume set, which will be the last ever printed. Sales staff ...

The Robert Appleton Company in New York originally published the Old Catholic Encyclopedia between 1907 and 1912. You can find more information about it here. Below is the text from the original ...

Editor’s Note: James S. O’Rourke, IV is a professor of management and the Arthur F. and Mary J. O’Neil Director of the Fanning Center for Business Communication at the University of Notre Dame. The ...

Before there was Wikipedia, there were encyclopedias — and Saturday marks the 300th birthday of the father of one of the world's most important. Eighteenth-century French philosopher Denis Diderot was ...

First published in 1981 as "The Computer Glossary," a 300-term, text-only handbook for Alan Freedman's computer literacy seminars, by 1989, the 3,500-term, illustrated 4th edition won the "Best ...