Wikipedia

Has anyone used the Wikipedia website before?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

It's an online encyclopedia but, more useful and far more diverse.

In many ways, its far more useful than Google in terms of research. I've been using it quite regularly for the last two months, and during my last month at Chohung Bank, I was using it VERY regularly in order to kill some time.

For example, if you want to know the ending of "The Fast and The Furious", type it in, and it'll give you a plot summary and the ending.

The beauty of Wikipedia, is that it has been written by its readers - its also being constantly edited and if you feel that an entry looks wrong, you can edit it yourself. How cool is that!

Anyway, things i've been using Wikipedia for recently

• reading analysis of movies i dont understand!
  
• looking up old Sinclair Spectrum computer games
• doing some research into Chinese history - just realised that for a Chinese person, I don't know that much about my history

In some ways, I think my generation missed out by not having the Internet when we were in school/college. Geez, i mean, think of the kind of information available just by typing in a few words in your browser. I doubt even my school/college library had this much information so easily available.

And there's another factor too - its fun! I mean, its great to be able to research into rock formations in Bolivia, but two seconds later, you can also read up retro gaming on the Commodore 64!

So get researching! Find out something new that you didn't know. This link should take you to a random article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random