Yeah i had no idea that Encarta exists either, especially as a stand-alone product. I remember when PC encyclopedias were all the rage because of the multimedia content...i remember being awestruck by watching the kennedy moon speech on a PC at CompUSA, but you could never cite them as a source for papers in school, so once the thrill of videos wore off they were pretty useless. I guess its nice for kids to have at least one guaranteed accurate source for information on their PC, though the entry about Bill Gates being defined as the most handsome and cunning man in the world always threw me off.
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Yeah i had no idea that Encarta exists either, especially as a stand-alone product. I remember when PC encyclopedias were all the rage because of the multimedia content...i remember being awestruck by watching the kennedy moon speech on a PC at CompUSA, but you could never cite them as a source for papers in school, so once the thrill of videos wore off they were pretty useless. I guess its nice for kids to have at least one guaranteed accurate source for information on their PC, though the entry about Bill Gates being defined as the most handsome and cunning man in the world always threw me off.