Show HN: Encarta 95 Web

(benwinding.github.io)

62 points | by gitgud 3 days ago

18 comments

  • I_am_tiberius 3 minutes ago
    This makes me raise the question whether it's possible to view wikipedia as per ...? I know i can go back per article - but can I browse wikipidea as it was in 2005?
  • sevenseacat 1 minute ago
    Mind Maze yesssssssssssss
  • haunter 8 minutes ago
    I still have my boxed copy of Encarta 2001. The interactive world atlas was the best feature! Miles ahead of everything at the time. Multiple layers of stats from population to weather to languages etc https://youtu.be/zsbShjlh6xk?si=4U47LILUmKPfXgPY&t=320
  • xacky 17 minutes ago
    CD ROM encyclopedias were only really viable when dial up speeds limited the amount of multimedia content on the internet. Both Microsoft and Britannica were victims of internet encyclopedias. And now static internet based encyclopedias are themselves under threat of personalised AI content as well. The pursuit of knowledge keeps changing what knowledge itself looks like.
  • 0x10ca1h0st 21 minutes ago
    The very first program I ever used on my father's PC, and would constantly get stuck playing Mind Maze for hours.
  • wafflez 38 minutes ago
    What a throwback. Right back to writing "book reports" in middle school.
  • sucrose 2 days ago
    I got carried away and started playing the Age of Empires Demo from the desktop after I exited Encarta
    • usern20260720 35 minutes ago
      it is amazing that you can emulate win 95 on a browser tab and play win 95 video games like it's 1998.
      • mysterydip 7 minutes ago
        It goes to show how actually powerful modern hardware is, and how much of it is squandered by modern software.
    • OuterVale 53 minutes 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.
    • pixel_popping 2 days ago
      Back to prompting now.
    • nether1 54 minutes ago
      Me too
  • phantomathkg 11 minutes ago
    the problem i have is the mouse control is weird.
  • tadfisher 2 days ago
    Just checked, the Soundgarden clip is in its proper place on the Rock Music article. Fantastic work.
  • otagekki 1 hour ago
    Wait, it even features a windows 95? nice easter egg
  • karim79 2 days 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
    • bombcar 9 minutes ago
      I remember the CD drive on the school computer took CDs in a big case with a floppy like opening.
  • rahidz 41 minutes ago
    Immediately jumped straight to MindMaze.
  • bananaflag 1 hour ago
    The text looks very weird on my PC, see: https://imgur.com/a/vAMVHc7
    • Cilvic 49 minutes ago
      isn't that how it looked at the time?
  • Brendinooo 41 minutes ago
    Straight to Mind Maze for me!

    (Mouse is VERY touchy though)

  • est 41 minutes ago
    The mouse hijack feels really weird
  • neronuser 3 days ago
    Oh, that's very nostalgic, even though I only got acquainted with Encarta in the 2000s
  • BorisMelnik 2 days 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!
  • alexwrich 2 days ago
    NICE - thank u