![]() ![]() which as a whole HTML5 interface to go back and experience the launch in realtime. Then I realized there's a separate entry specifically for the Apollo 11 mission. At first I was surprised that I couldn't find this video. Just to compare I perused the Wikipedia "moon landing" page to compare. I was dazzled by the novelty of it and immediately tried searching for all videos and playing all I could find on the CD-ROM. > In a world of 4k streaming video, global wireless, and high-speed everything, there's really no analog to the feeling we got watching the Moon Landing as a video in Encarta - short of watching it live on TV in the 1969! For most of us, this was the first time we'd ever seen full-motion video on-demand on a computer in any sort of fidelity - and these are mostly 320x240 or smaller videos! ![]() Most people who did end up owning (some version of) Encarta got a demo or companion version with some other product, much like the Microsoft Works package you sometimes got with systems, but right around that time Wikipedia was already gaining popularity. ![]() It didn't have videos but it did have the same information as the paper versions. ![]() We did have something else, I don't remember the name of it, but it was like a network-CD-drive-server device that worked on Windows 95,, as well as Macs, and we had a cross-platform (flash/shockwave based AFAIK) viewer thing that was probably an encyclopaedia but it was never named or marketed as such. And everything else was an Apple Mac, so you could put the CD in but you got nothing out of it. It probably didn't help that it was a Microsoft-only deal as most of the stuff was an odd mix Netware-driven PC's without Optical drives (we had ZIP!) or library computers that were locked in a box so you couldn't really put a CD in them. No full encyclopedia was really digitally popular as the schools and libraries all had plenty of physical copies and people around to help use/find them. Right in the middle of the CD-ROMs are big and DSL just starting to become available period we got a few educational CDs that did more specialised things like only the history and current state of geographical information, or just mathematics, or just historical events of one country. We never really used Encarta, and I don't really know anyone who ever did. ![]()
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