The digital encyclopedia that was, ladies and gentlemen. I remember thinking how obsolete that first CD set made my Funk & Wagnall’s encyclopedia — and yet, 15 years later, Encarta is going to a better place and I still have the Funk & Wagnall’s, which combined with Wikipedia encompasses the whole of human knowledge.
The well-meaning but perennially obsolete virtual encyclopedia will die the true death before the end of the year. Progress, thou comest at too high a price.
Wow, this brings back memories. I remember when my family bought our first windows 95 pc in ‘96 and it came with Encarta. I used it for school projects and of course browsed it when I was bored… But nowadays, no commercial product like this can compete with Wikipedia.
I’m booting progman as we speak.
Maybe MS should release the content to Wikipedia and let the editing hordes integrate it in? It would be better than letting it just die.
To think, all of Encarta 95 would likely fit into my smartphone. I, too, remember browsing for fun. I’m a teacher now… if only my students would understand this as an example of a vetted resource. Wikipedia can’t be “the source” for naive middle-school minds.
Everybody is complaining about losing Encarta, but I’m more worried about Encarta 95’s bundled game, Mind Maze. Please bring it back.
Alan – were you in the Navy?
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menurut saya buku ini sangat bermanfaat khususnya para pelajar di indonesia.