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I guess? I agree that parsing out the articles and rendering them in the HTML would make it more readable. But the author didn’t just throw together Win95 and Encarta in a VM an…
by notpushkin · Oct 29, 2026
Encarta 99 was awesome back in the day. Groliers. World Book. Britannica. They were amazing. All that rich interactive reference material at your fingertips, offline, was an abs…
by sharts · Oct 28, 2026
Does anyone else remember the encarta CDs that came with boxed Kellogg's cereals?
by 4thguy · Oct 27, 2026
OP wrote: "difficult task"... It's just a crappy render of a Windows VM's display, in all it's upscaled pixelated glory, it's not even doing anything webby like a Javascript eng…
by netsharc · Oct 27, 2026
It's because it's basically a fully emulated PC running Windows 95. It's not a recreation of Encarta for the web, which would me much nicer IMHO.
by ale42 · Oct 27, 2026
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Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also available online via annual subscription, although later articles could also be viewed for free online with advertisements. By 2008, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools. Read more on Wikipedia