I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

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Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

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Post by hanselot » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

topkai22 wrote: post #145

hanselot wrote: post #72

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I remember in second and third grade we had the same thing, except, we were running pentium 2 and 3 machines around 1998. Our school lab had about 20-25 pc's, and all of them ran windows xp. We filled every conceivable space on those machines with pirated copies of gameboy emulators and various pokemon roms. It became a game of, will the computer admins ever realise, and if they do, will they do anything about it. Lo…

I think your memories may be merging over time. Win XP didn't come out till 2001, so it was probably win 98/98 SE running in your classroom. One of the things I remember about school computing in the 90s was how varied the equipment could be. My school had 2-3 computers per classroom, but 2nd grade had Apple IIs, 3rd grade had... possibly an Amiga?, and 4,5,6 grade had a mix of IBM PCs and one Mac, but with what ever…

I think you are correct. It likely was 98SE. We were running the same OS at home. Sorry, I had discarded my Windows metadata long ago, keeping only the absolutely vital bits for dev work, and supporting people that were born a long time ago.

Re: I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

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Post by shalmanese » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

dr_orpheus wrote: post #149

oriesdan wrote: post #31

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One thing I remember from those times : even knowing there was an encyclopedia on the school library computer, I would not use it, because it just sounded impractical. I would need to ask for permission to use the computer, then wait for it to start, then figure how to do a search, while the competitive proposition was just picking the encyclopedia volume for the correct letter and finding my page! How much a few dec…

There's still one thing that I absolutely prefer looking for a page in a book rather than searching online, and that's recipes for cooking. I can't stand scrolling through pages of people telling me about the history of this thing they cooked while ads are popping up to get to the actual recipe. And if anyone has any suggestions for better places online to look for recipes, I'd be happy to have them! I like Cooking f…

Check out eatyourbooks.com. It's a digital, searchable index of your paper books so you can look for recipes featuring "ras al hanout", for example, and it will tell you which books you own have recipes with that ingredient.

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