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Smallville
03/05/2024
04:53 PM
#1
A lot? They came bundled with all the PCs that were bought yrs ago. Groliers and Compton's too. Wikipedia made them extinct, obsolete
"That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ
Winterking
03/05/2024
05:03 PM
#2
Honestly? *Google* killed a lot of what they offered, even before Wikipedia came online.

Hell, even the earlier search engines got you most of the way there.
FF_Redux
03/05/2024
05:04 PM
#3
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Smallville
03/05/2024
05:09 PM
#4
Winterking posted...
Honestly? *Google* killed a lot of what they offered, even before Wikipedia came online.

Hell, even the earlier search engines got you most of the way there.
Yeah can't even remember when wikipedia got huge, or even Google . Iirc though yahoo wanted to by Google for like a billion or some thing early on , now both Google guys are like top 10 richest in the world. Iirc wikipedia founder made extremely little . Great site YouTube, founder ,didn't make a huge amt
"That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ
Winterking
03/05/2024
05:11 PM
#5
If you haven't yet, please watch "Halt and Catch Fire" when you get a chance. The final season touches on the early days of "search".
Smallville
03/05/2024
05:13 PM
#6
Winterking posted...
If you haven't yet, please watch "Halt and Catch Fire" when you get a chance. The final season touches on the early days of "search".
Oh it's on YouTube, used to be on a disc, like documentary release? What's so interesting about it?
"That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ
Imit8m3
03/05/2024
05:18 PM
#7
I read the entire Encyclopedia Britanica when I was 9 years old.
Did you know that it used to be a set of very heavy books?
I got asthma bruh. I can't be chasing these hoes.
divot1338
03/05/2024
05:21 PM
#8
We had a whole set of Encyclopedia Britannicas. In our defense there was no internet.
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Smallville
03/05/2024
05:24 PM
#9
divot1338 posted...
We had a whole set of Encyclopedia Britannicas. In our defense there was no internet.
Yeah those huge books have def. gone extinct
"That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ
DarkDoc
03/05/2024
05:25 PM
#10
Encarts was just shit.

Britannica was the real encyclopedia.
divot1338
03/05/2024
05:59 PM
#11
Smallville posted...
Yeah those huge books have def. gone extinct
I remember the day when we threw them in the trash. My dad was so pissed.
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DragulaRULEZ
03/05/2024
06:00 PM
#12
I learned about Greek/Roman gods from those.
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chris1001_the_sequel
03/05/2024
06:01 PM
#13
FF_Redux posted...
https://youtu.be/DTR6ocWV90s?si=y1nfC7cql_P7BAOA

I used it almost exclusively for this
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Shotgunnova
03/05/2024
06:08 PM
#14
Fella's gotta play MindMaze somehow.
Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends
And watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame
Zikten
03/05/2024
06:10 PM
#15
I never owned that. If I had I probably would have used it as a kid. I remember briefly using it sometimes in school.

I did at one point have a complete set of American history encyclopedias. From Columbus to the 80s or early 90s.
action52
03/05/2024
06:22 PM
#16
If you had a CD-ROM and your only internet source was a modem, Encarta was a great alternative to printed encyclopedias that were a fraction of the cost and didn't need a whole bookshelf devoted to it.

But once everyone had real internet access that pretty much killed it.
"It's Kanin' time."
Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
Fenriswolf
03/05/2024
07:23 PM
#17
Only used it to play that maze game
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Smallville
03/05/2024
08:53 PM
#18
Fenriswolf posted...
Only used it to play that maze game
had encarta never even played the maze game. Don't remember it. When you started it up it should have said in huge letters, play the maze game now!
"That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ
ProfessorKukui
03/05/2024
09:00 PM
#19
The series of books that I could or could not use, depending on my parents' moods.
#b#reathe out
GranTurismo
03/05/2024
09:03 PM
#20
ProfessorKukui posted...
The series of books that I could or could not use, depending on my parents' moods.
you still have sets of books of encyclopedias? prob everybody threw them out , like the tvs that were really thick, crtvs
zinformant
03/05/2024
09:13 PM
#21
Mind Maze is the correct answer.
While we count these petals to pluck them off a cosmos
The stem is likely to blast but never does the fate
Fenriswolf
03/05/2024
10:08 PM
#22
Smallville posted...
had encarta never even played the maze game. Don't remember it. When you started it up it should have said in huge letters, play the maze game now!

Apparently it's more prominent in the 90s Encartas, but in the 2000s they've hidden it. I guess parents complained about kids playing that game when they should be studying LOL.
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Winterking
03/08/2024
02:33 PM
#23
Smallville posted...
Oh it's on YouTube, used to be on a disc, like documentary release? What's so interesting about it?
No, it's a drama about early computing. Was on AMC or whatever channel aired Breaking Bad initially. It's an incredible show, very well written and performed (especially considering the subject matter). The final season ends with the creation of the modern search engine , but it touches base on some of the problems of early home internet: how do you the sites people create out to the people that want to view them?
Smallville
03/08/2024
09:49 PM
#24
Winterking posted...
No, it's a drama about early computing. Was on AMC or whatever channel aired Breaking Bad initially. It's an incredible show, very well written and performed (especially considering the subject matter). The final season ends with the creation of the modern search engine , but it touches base on some of the problems of early home internet: how do you the sites people create out to the people that want to view them?
Idk maybe I can find it on yt, that would be very convenient if I could find it in there. You thought it was really great right? But it is like a fictional movie you say, with actors? I usually don't like those
"That won't work Boss, hide the target in a place they're unlikely to be found"---GZ
Winterking
03/11/2024
08:41 AM
#25
Yeah, its a fully fictional story, but set in the real world. It starts out with a fake computer company thats very much like what early Compaq (I think) may have been like. Might be most appropriate call it historical fiction? But instead of changing one detail and predicting how that would change history, we are viewing the history that did happen through the lens of these made up character/company.
Robot2600
03/11/2024
08:45 AM
#26
yea, before wikipedia of course I did.

i started using wikipedia in 2003 or perhaps early 2004. it might have been around before then but i didn't use it.

google started getting popular in 2000. altavista was probably the best search engine before that, but in general all engines gave different results so i'd search with google/altavista/yahoo/jeeves if i was researching something
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