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I sunk a ton of time into Encarta as a kid. In some ways, it still seems superior to Wikipedia.
by cpitman 8y ago
I sunk a ton of time into Encarta as a kid. In some ways, it still seems superior to Wikipedia.
- ElCapitanMarkla 8y agoI remember replaying that cheetah video, Neil Armstrong’s “one small step...” and that gravity interactive countless times
- asd 8y agoI think these may be the two videos you are referring to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEH-HxLJtBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEH-HxLJtBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4t2g37DAcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4t2g37DAcQ
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoBasketball too :)
- chrisfinazzo 8y agoMindmaze. That's all I have to say.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoIs there anything like that today?
- chrisfinazzo 8y agoNot that I know of. The demise of CD-ROM as a format and later the .com bust probably had a fair bit to do with the education software market getting reshaped in weird ways. I was a freshman in HS in '01 so at that point I was far enough away from that kind of stuff that I never really found out how it ended up.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoSimilar story for me. My school didn't have anything like a geography class, but my wandering around Encarta 95 was probably a suitable replacement.
- untog 8y agoI spent so many hours on that. I remember a later version of Encarta absolutely nerfing it though, and I have no idea why.
- smacktoward 8y agoMicrosoft's CD-based movie encyclopedia product, Cinemania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cinemania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cinemania), was similarly excellent. In terms of presentation, Cinemania 97 was far superior to IMDB as it is 20 years later.
- chrisfinazzo 8y agoSeeing Alec Guinness (as Ben Kenobi) get cut down by David Prowse in a little 320x240 window :) Man, those were the days...
- Keyframe 8y agoI completely forgot about that, you brought some great memories! It really seems like those curated educational/reference/edutainment(?) products were, in some ways, better than interwebz we have today. Microsoft was really good at that game. Even on the internet. I wonder what they're up to now, will have to check out. There was this site they did, I think as a part of demonstration of terraserver, where they made an online sky map with deep zoom functionality. It was impressive at the time. Googling turns out nothing - maybe I should try with Bing. However, english wikipedia is probably one of the most important, if not THE most important invention internet has brought us. Such a wealth of information and all as a free access. I've dreamt of such thing in our future back then, and now we have it.
- VectorLock 8y agoJust seeing the word 'Encarta' which I probably haven't thought about or encountered in the past decade is just bringing back a flood of nostalgia.