I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
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I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
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Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
#2Encarta was an amazing product that I fondly remember using in school. It was essentially wikipedia before there was wikipedia with the upside that it had curated and citable sources and generally a much higher quality of writing.
In my eyes, over the years, wikipedia has caught up a lot in terms of quality of writing and wikimedia now has a lot of images and video.
I wonder if there is a way to just download the whole wikipedia for easy distribution like encarta.
Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
#3I also miss it.
Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
#4Encarta was an amazing product that I fondly remember using in school. It was essentially wikipedia before there was wikipedia with the upside that it had curated and citable sources and generally a much higher quality of writing. In my eyes, over the years, wikipedia has caught up a lot in terms of quality of writing and wikimedia now has a lot of images and video. I wonder if there is a way to just download the who…
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#5I 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.
Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
#6Just wanted to give an honorable mention to:
David Macaulay's "The way things work" CD-ROM
So many fond memories.
Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
#7Just wanted to give an honorable mention to: David Macaulay's "The way things work" CD-ROM So many fond memories.
We had the book as children. It was a massive (to my child's hands) hard cover book. I spent ages paging through it, looking at all the cute little illustrations. Whenever I had a question that my father coulnd't answer, we'd rush over to the bookshelf to find it there. It always seemed to have the answer.
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#8I miss paper encyclopedias. A roommate had the complete 1974 Winkler Prins, and I loved to just browse through it. Admittedly, browsing through Wikipedia is also fun, but still, browsing through a paper book is a very different experience. My kids don't see the point, unfortunately.
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#9Convenience replaces nostalgia: Why miss Encarta when you have Wikipedia? I liked the Encarta experience: it was amazing to see videos, photos and everything in a nice UI back then, but today we have Wikipedia, Wikimedia, etc. It's a way superior experience and there's x100 content.
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#10I remember going through some 3D model of the colloseum in it, always thinking it’s maybe actually a game but it was just a static 3D model. Must have spent hours there.