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Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company (hackaday.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-in-one dept.

szczys writes: The CRC Handbook is one great example of how access to information has changed over the years. Now, you open up Google and find your answers. In decades past, hard data needed to solve engineering problems was embodied in volumes of text known as Databooks. One of the best known was the Chemical Rubber Company Handbook. Don't let the name fool you, the CRC Handbook contained traits, properties, equations, and much more on all kinds of materials and techniques for using them. It's still around today and has one big advantage over our searchable digital lives: you know you can trust the accuracy of the information in those books at face value while online information requires validation.

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  1. Nope by penguinoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    you know you can trust the accuracy of the information in those books at face value

    Nope.

    information requires validation.

    Correct (but verify for yourself that I am right about this).

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  2. CRC Handbook by DarkOx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I keep an old CRC Handbook on a shelf in the kitchen next to all the cook books. Its just there make guest nervous...

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  3. Re:Trust? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not how the Internet works at all. The erroneous version will show up in results 70 to 79, the fixed version will show up in results 80 to 89 and porn will show up for the first 69 results.

  4. Re:Trust? by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found an error in my CRC book.

    Didn't the checksum routine catch it?

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