I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

Re:I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) by martin_a on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:28AM (#24834720)

I remember we had something like "Encarta 98" (was that a thing?) on my dads computer. It was a family computer and my brother and me were sitting in front of it, watching videos and reading all the stuff in there and whatnot. I always dreamed that school was like this. Hasn't happened until today, which is sad.

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Re:I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) by watermanio on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:25AM (#24835376)

My Dad was too cheap for Encarta. We had a shareware version called something like Infopedia. I remember doing a homework project at a friend's house and being quite jealous of the proper version!

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Re:I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) by martin_a on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:22AM (#24836462)

I think we had a pirated copy from some buddy, too... :-D

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Re:I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019) by rakoo on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:53AM (#24835202)

I think I had Encarta 97 or 98 and reading all the pages of the stuff I liked, even printing them. At some point I memorized most of the texts of those pages.

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