CD ROM encyclopedias were only really viable when dial up speeds limited the amount of multimedia content on the internet. Both Microsoft and Britannica were victims of internet encyclopedias. And now static internet based encyclopedias are themselves under threat of personalised AI content as well. The pursuit of knowledge keeps changing what knowledge itself looks like.
CD ROM encyclopedias were only really viable when dial up speeds limited the amount of multimedia content on the internet. Both Microsoft and Britannica were victims of internet encyclopedias. And now static internet based encyclopedias are themselves under threat of personalised AI content as well. The pursuit of knowledge keeps changing what knowledge itself looks like.
What a throwback. Right back to writing "book reports" in middle school.
I got carried away and started playing the Age of Empires Demo from the desktop after I exited Encarta
it is amazing that you can emulate win 95 on a browser tab and play win 95 video games like it's 1998.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who immediately ditched an opportunity to learn for AoE. It lures like a siren's song.
Back to prompting now.
Me too
the problem i have is the mouse control is weird.
The very first program I ever used on my father's PC, and would constantly get stuck playing Mind Maze for hours.
Wait, it even features a windows 95? nice easter egg
It is loading a Windows 95 VM (using https://copy.sh/v86/) and runs an actual copy of Encarta 95 there, yeah.
and includes AoE 2 :D
Just checked, the Soundgarden clip is in its proper place on the Rock Music article. Fantastic work.
Nice! Here’s the permalink for “Rock Music” (it’s funny how this is implemented)
https://benwinding.github.io/encarta_95_web/#/article/Rock%2...
The text looks very weird on my PC, see: https://imgur.com/a/vAMVHc7
isn't that how it looked at the time?
Straight to Mind Maze for me!
(Mouse is VERY touchy though)
Immediately jumped straight to MindMaze.
Oh God I remember running this on my dad's computer which had the first CD-ROM drive I had seen. I felt like I was in a spaceship
I remember the CD drive on the school computer took CDs in a big case with a floppy like opening.
The mouse hijack feels really weird
Oh, that's very nostalgic, even though I only got acquainted with Encarta in the 2000s
wow blast from the past. I do beleive this exact version prob in exactly 95 was the first CD I ever inserted into a CD rom. lots of fun!
NICE - thank u