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> That, and a mismatch between the huge capacity of a CD, and typical software back then. Remember, popular games like Doom fitted on a couple of 3.5" floppies

> That, and a mismatch between the huge capacity of a CD, and typical software back then. Remember, popular games like Doom fitted on a couple of 3.5" floppies. 3D graphics was just coming. I think this is why encyclopedias were one of the first "killer applications" for CD-ROMs. Wikipedia didn't yet exist, paper encyclopedia sets cost several hundred dollars at least, and floppy disks weren't really big enough for it. Having a whole encyclopedia on one or two CDs was a game changer.

justsomehnguy 3y ago
> was a game changer The game changer was multimedia encyclopedia. You can have a lot of text on compressed 3.5", but having a digital sound and video was the main selling point. An example of Encarta 94 video: https://youtu.be/mEySJkXezeg?t=500 https://youtu.be/mEySJkXezeg?t=500
- js2 3y ago
  Two other multimedia examples: From Alice to Ocean: https://archive.org/details/CDAC-029000 https://archive.org/details/CDAC-029000 Myst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
- LocalH 3y ago
  One of the earliest applications of “postage stamp size” video