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https://benwinding.github.io/encarta_95_web/#/article/Art

27•gitgud•3d ago

Encarta is super nostalgic, and I was surprised it wasn't available to use online. So I embarked on the difficult task of making it so.

The way this works is the most convoluted, nonsense and brittle system ever... but it works as a statically hosted gh-pages site!

Please note: All the material on this site is freely available through the internet archive (see github readme)

Github repo -> https://github.com/benwinding/encarta_95_web

Comments

neronuser•3d ago

Oh, that's very nostalgic, even though I only got acquainted with Encarta in the 2000s

sucrose•2d ago

I got carried away and started playing the Age of Empires Demo from the desktop after I exited Encarta

pixel_popping•2d ago

Back to prompting now.

nether1•4m ago

Me too

OuterVale•3m ago

Glad to see I'm not the only one who immediately ditched an opportunity to learn for AoE. It lures like a siren's song.

karim79•2d ago

Oh God I remember running this on my dad's computer which had the first CD-ROM drive I had seen. I felt like I was in a spaceship

BorisMelnik•2d ago

wow blast from the past. I do beleive this exact version prob in exactly 95 was the first CD I ever inserted into a CD rom. lots of fun!

tadfisher•2d ago

Just checked, the Soundgarden clip is in its proper place on the Rock Music article. Fantastic work.

gitgud•2d ago

Nice! Here’s the permalink for “Rock Music” (it’s funny how this is implemented)

https://benwinding.github.io/encarta_95_web/#/article/Rock%2...

alexwrich•2d ago

NICE - thank u

bananaflag•32m ago

The text looks very weird on my PC, see: https://imgur.com/a/vAMVHc7

otagekki•17m ago

Wait, it even features a windows 95? nice easter egg

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