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What a time to be alive, to find such ultra high quality and inspiring materials for free. When I was young I spend so much time with an illegal copy of Encarta
by teekert 4mo ago
What a time to be alive, to find such ultra high quality and inspiring materials for free. When I was young I spend so much time with an illegal copy of Encarta (which sparked my career as a scientist) and already considered myself to be fortunate... What a time to be alive.
- rithdmc 4mo agoToday I learned Encarta was not free.
- teekert 4mo agoIn a sense it was (set?) free. And that led to a lot of good things, imho.
- tantalor 4mo agoIt cost $100 in 1993, after they dropped the initial price. That is about $235 now.
- LearnYouALisp 4mo agoWhat about like educational licenses? Esp late 90s
- rithdmc 4mo agoThanks. I'm Irish, no idea what the price (in Punt, it would have been!) should have been at. A family friend hooked us up with software that should have cost money (mostly Office software, but some games and Encarta included) via the usual means.
- jasonmp85 4mo ago[dead]
- bux93 4mo agoI have fond memories of the, I think 1995, Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. I think it was given away with new computers, like Encarta and Grolier's. I think I did buy the Compton's CD, but at a huge discount, since I bought it grey market (not bundled with a PC, but from a PC retailer).
- mandeepj 4mo ago> inspiring materials for free Minus ad watch time! The cost is directly proportional to how you value your time.
- satvikpendem 4mo agoThere exist adblockers and extensions like SponsorBlock to block in-video sponsor segments, tangents, intros, outros and other time wasters.
- mandeepj 4mo agoI gave you clear clues, but you still overlooked my comment. These blockers are a hit or miss on any given day; remember, it's a continuous fight between both sides.
- db48x 4mo agoI have watched literally zero ads on Youtube since I installed uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock many years ago. If it’s a continuous fight then it’s one that adblockers continuously win.
- satvikpendem 4mo agoNo, they've been working just fine for years, maybe you should actually have experience with them before making such false equivalences. Also no need for the snark in your first sentence, if you're going to say something then say it, instead of giving people "clues" and trying to fault them for failing to read your mind for some reason.
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- qingcharles 4mo agoI learned more about electrolysis in this short YouTube video than I did in years of science classes at school.
- dyauspitr 4mo agoSeriously. I was such an information hog too at that age (still am). I would read the entire encyclopedia, every science book I had over and over and explore the encarta cd a lot.