This was a bit like 'Google Street View' (extremely-lite) in that there were a couple of pictures of the village I grew up in on the Laser Discs. We had the who

This was a bit like 'Google Street View' (extremely-lite) in that there were a couple of pictures of the village I grew up in on the Laser Discs. We had the whole kit and caboodle at school, plus, during holiday times (3 months of Summer), we could borrow the BBC Micro part to take home!!! This was what got me into programming 6502 assembler. All told, including the Domesday Project part, this was an extraordinary education effort by schools, the BBC and Acorn from which many oaks did grow. The laser discs themselves were a bit like gold disc LP records - 12" sized and expensive looking. I believe there were video games in arcades that had the same technology going on with moving pictures rather than still frames. As a whole though the Domesday content was a bit like Encarta and other multimedia CDs that came out when CD-ROM was a thing. Much like Encarta et al., one felt slightly disappointed at the lack of depth to the knowledge/information provided, thank goodness Wikipedia took off.