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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by jacobolus on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:58PM (#20741762)
My grandparents got a Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia one volume at a time from a supermarket marketing thing in the 1950s.

Amusingly, many of the articles in Encarta were copied verbatim from there.

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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by voltagex_ on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:07AM (#20744220)
Last part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_%26_Wagnalls

>"After failing to purchase rights to the text of the Encyclopædia Britannica and World Book Encyclopedia for its Encarta digital encyclopedia, Microsoft reluctantly used (under license) the text of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia for the first editions of its encyclopedia. This licensed text was gradually replaced over the following years with content Microsoft created itself.[7]"

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