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I spent ages trying to work out if it would be possible to find a copy of the 2021 Encarta or Britannica. Pre LLM And post COVID and perhaps the best we can ho

I spent ages trying to work out if it would be possible to find a copy of the 2021 Encarta or Britannica. Pre LLM And post COVID and perhaps the best we can hope for before AI taints all the info. One of my prized possessions as a child was a CDROM based encyclopedia (well before the internet was common). I don't know why I liked it so much but on a rainy afternoon I'd kick up some of my favourite articles and read and learn more of them.

ahaspel 6mo ago
I know exactly what you mean — I had the same experience with CD-ROM encyclopedias. There’s something about just browsing and falling into articles that’s hard to replicate. Part of the motivation here was to bring that kind of exploration back, but with the original 1911 text and structure.
- pawsocks 6mo ago
  Do you happen to use a language model to translate or format your comments?
  - ahaspel 6mo ago
    Just me. I spent a lot of time thinking about this, so I like talking about it.
tezza 6mo ago
2004: https://archive.org/details/britannica-2004 https://archive.org/details/britannica-2004 2009: https://archive.org/details/britannica-multimedia-dvd-2009-disc https://archive.org/details/britannica-multimedia-dvd-2009-d... 2012: https://archive.org/details/britannica-dvd_20230709 https://archive.org/details/britannica-dvd_20230709 2013: https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-britannica-dvd-2013 https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-britannica-dvd-2013
hoppyhoppy2 6mo ago
The final release of Encarta was in 2009.