I just posted the other day about how my family bought a full set of Encyclopedia Britannica, then a couple years later a CD-ROM copy of Encarta (~500x the capa

I just posted the other day about how my family bought a full set of Encyclopedia Britannica, then a couple years later a CD-ROM copy of Encarta (~500x the capacity of typical 3.5" floppies?), then four or five years later it was all online. Heady times! Also, younger folks these days haven't lived through a physical media migration. The weirdest thing I remember about the early CD-ROM days was that everything was parallel distributed: there was a floppy version (10 disks!) that would be substantially media-cut-down, then a CD-ROM version. Because install bases don't grow overnight.