Remember These Huge Encyclopedias Every Single Family Got Talked Into Buying?

You remember these vintage encyclopedias? It's crazy to think we once paid so much for a set of Encyclopedias. Do you know how this all started? Well we bought them off a door to door salesmen! For about thirty years, a man would come to your door and sell your family the world; bound in leather, alphabetized, for a payment plan; every month. This is the story of what these Encyclopedias were: how that worked, and what made them leave. Before Google we believed that knowledge was finite and could be owned. But one day that shelf stopped being enough. Never stop learning. Frank CHAPTERS: 0:00 We Paid This Much for All the Answers 0:24 A Salesman Sold Them Door to Door 2:06 What The Books Were Like When They Came Home 3:20 Some Families Had The Full Set Some Never Made It Past M 4:45 We Believed All The Answers Were in There 7:46 The Government Gets Involved 9:30 Forty-Five Dollar CD-Roms Replaced the Whole Set 11:14 Even With the Internet Something Didn't Leave #nostalgia #backthen #encyclopedia #salesman #historystory #historically #rememberance #vanished #forgottenworld #oldstories #historicalfacts #objecttalk #retroreflections