Microsoft Encarta '95

[@NicenEasyuk]

I absolutely loved this! ahh to be young in the 90's

[@IARRCSim]

yeah, it was great. I spent many hours systematically going through the music, interactive media, and trying to play Mind Maze. It was an impressively sophisticated and entertaining learning tool.

[@WD-um1ch]

Being a 90s child and teen I can say times were better back then

[@DR34DL0RDD43DRA]

Yes!!!

[@Tristamus]

I spent weeks, maybe months worth of time playing on these Encarta CD's when I was little. The presentation and (seeming) enormity of stuff to do was really engrossing. Very memorable stuff.

[@konami1979]

This brings back a lot of memories. Having an encyclopedia as well as dozens of videos and audio recordings on one CD-ROM disc was considered to be cutting-edge back in the day. And then Wikipedia and KZbin came along.

[@canman5060]

It was a very big revolution in those days.The world first complete do away with 28 plus volume of hard bound super heavy encyclopedia book bindings.

[@TheAlps36]

RIP World Book and RIP Encarta

[@ANWRocketMan]

My school often forbade us from using online/computer sources for anything, most of our teachers were in their 50's/60's. "Just get with the times already..!" I remember thinking.

[@tharakhgormaniad9820]

@@ANWRocketMan I actually appreciate them for what they did. School is a place for student to think and learn. By swiping pages through encyclopedia student will be enhancing their skimming and scanning skills. It was 2009 when I was in elementary school and we were forced to scan words that we don't understand through volumes of encyclopedia and Cambridge dictionary. And they still had the last installed version of msn encarta student edition in the computers at computer lab! those were the days

[@paperoverflow]

As a child I loved this a whole lot, it has a real special place in my mind. I was blown away back then by all there was to know and learn about our planet and cultures, and physics etc. All this interactively. I was and still am in love with encyclopedias to this day. The mind maze was quite an entertaining game, and was generally fan of point and click games. I miss this time, the 90s were incredible in terms of novelty factor. Nowadays the amounts of progress aren't as apparent, or dare I say some things are even going backwards.

[@pammorgan4379]

Encarta 95 was my stimulus for buying a home PC rather than a set of encyclopedias which would have been much more expensive. It also was the beginning of learning the ins and out of using computers, experiencing AOL and more. I loved Encarta. I saw MLK's I have a dream and Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon featured in Encarta on the Today Show. The rest is history!

[@jeffshaught]

We got a new Multimedia PC for Christmas 1994, and I was just absolutely blown away by how advanced it seemed. A whole encyclopedia on one CD-Rom? Funny how limiting that seems now.

[@Yobbie72]

but it was all there in one place.

[@jamesrad6317]

Yeah but with Encarta you looked shit up up why the Berlin wall fell down. With all our unlimited online capacity now we just tend to watch videos of cats.

[@andyc6542]

@@jamesrad6317 I hear you. Seems that more often isn’t better when it comes to the options we have available to us today for media.

[@andyc6542]

The thing is - it was limited, useful information instead of limitless, useless information that we have today.. Okay, the bit about useless information was a bit much, but this amount of information, in one package, was perfect. Now we have thousands of Google pages for big topics, amateurs trying to make videos on every topic out there, and misinformation all over the internet, Sometimes, less is more, and I genuinely believe the pre internet age was golden (whilst acknowledging the irony of using KZbin to type this out)

[@glitterbaby00]

I genuinely learnt so much on Encarta, especially instruments from around the world game. I smashed that!

[@jpmacunha]

Got immediate chills during the intro music #nostalgia

[@victorialadybug1]

I remember this when I first got AOL and started surfing the web. Good times. I enjoyed using Encarta.

[@g.dejong7804]

Wikipedia before there was Wikipedia

[@lasombramagister2668]

This was my internet before the explosion of the internet

[@GregoryShtevensh]

I remember seeing how big a Lion was next to a man, and hearing the sound wolves make, on Encarta. My Grandfather had a win95 PC and also had Daytona USA

[@anti0918]

I still remember the German language sample saying: "Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert", and the slow-motion video of a white dove flying.

[@victorperrin7295]

And I remember the English one saying “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” 😂

[@nickmorgan2762]

Encarta was just wonderful to have back in the day. I used it a lot and I loved it.

[@LibraryAmbientJunkie]

Amazing program. I miss it

[@thatguyStrike]

Dude, they obviously hired a pro speaker to record the voice over, yet had someone do a "shwoo" sound when you hover over a menu item. This is peak 90s.

[@harvester0181]

*schwew

[@Lomner]

"The Taping of the Shwoo"

[@BenoitAdam]

The best of "Multimedia" back in those days. Powerful software for only a 90mhz computer

[@Samn3212]

Oh my god, take me back.

[@tristanmurraydrums9706]

I miss these days.

[@brittanyborja8572]

I was obsessed with this as a kid!!!!

[@Insectoid_]

Omg. Nostalgia

[@LogicMind99]

Before Wikipedia there was Encarta!

[@cozychihuahua]

Thank you for posting this. So many memories

[@milkapeismilky5464]

Serious memories! Had this on my first pc!

[@CALH99]

Definition of Multimedia

[@filip6472]

Was an interactive Wiki on a cd before decent internet basically.

[@KramuWu]

omg i've been trying to find "mind maze" for years... i vaguely remember the game but never enough to ever find it! This is a changing moment of my life.

[@freekingsweet666]

wow - the memories

[@ExisVR]

I really want MS Encarta 2024 (Blu-ray version)... Wikipedia and KZbin are great, but Encarta was perfect for child educations!

[@ESponge2000]

The Encarta 1994 had the miles Davis and the I have a dream

[@samuellatter2984]

Most of the modern world has forgotten and moved on from what this still means to us. The commenters on this video obviously haven't. And neither have I.

[@flashg643]

THe video of the snake eating the egg is burned into my brain

[@dtopaloglou]

Christ this brought back memories...

[@cakins1986]

Fuuuucccckkkkk take me back, TAKE ME BACK

[@blueberryz9368]

😢

[@Cookieofdoom]

Most sad thing was that it was only English. My child brain in 95 didn't understand diddly of it, and could have learned so much from it.

[@aragornii507]

Those were the times

[@yawar110]

... after this all Microsoft had to do was to publish this on the web! They did not someone else did.

[@Crash-zm2qd]

Never really used these at school though I remember big volume Encyclopedia books more.

[@annaalpes]

I look back in my head I still say "Willie was a sales man"

[@crueltyfreecolorist1025]

I want to get this going for my mum as she misses it, is there a way? We used to play it together. I’ve tried virtual box it didn’t work for me

[@jaworskij]

Pretty limited now, compared to Wikipedia(s).

[@trwolfe]

Wonderful observation!

[@jpmacunha]

you are a genious

[@Amplamente]

No way!

[@_nom_]

Wikipedia can't do sh!t offline. #IUseEncyclopedia95ForLife

[@darblackraven]

Capitan obvious

[@Strange1_au]

1:37 Minecraft origins

[@naegleriafowleri2230]

ahhh 90s kid lol

[@StoneWolf2077]

Yep I grew up with this.

[@Steph_PeachKoopa]

My mom bought this for me but I never had the need to use it cuz... I was born with all the knowledge in my mind 😂 I already could write, read, was born bilingual, I could program in several computer languages, tried to burn down the school cuz I saw humans like animals (I still do) I AM A FCKN MACHINE

[@chasemajochthevyondboy9927]

1:27 THEY HUNGER

[@pjsretrogamesmusicandwrass5795]

I'm thinking that this could really help me if there's a powercut and no internet in my area- I live in the Philippines. A bit of this and Collins to help my research , even though yes there are offline sites to get info from..

[@maidixiewrecked9297]

Image ratio fail this was 4:3

[@magnusworks]

Mind Maze!

[@TypicalZoomer]

Insane

[@aldochillgaming2381]

I just fucking realized that yoi have the same name as me 💀

[@nikkig7605]

Dying omg how do kids learn now again wow....

[@CocoMark]

google says this is a song

[@pwad]

1:10

[@rogerregistratro7882]

if you're watching this in 2021 something's not right with your head

[@tharakhgormaniad9820]

how so?