Encarta

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I used to love Encarta,an online or cd based encyclopaedia. Is there anything similar that kids can use now? I know there is the WHOLE internet, but Encarta seemed to flow better for kids.




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Wikepedia is a great resource. It's made all other encyclopaedias obsolete really. I too have fond memories of encarta though :)
 
Blue160 said:
Wikepedia is a great resource. It's made all other encyclopaedias obsolete really. I too have fond memories of encarta though :)
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The problem with Wikipedia is that it's so boring, especially for a younger audience. Encarta had images, sound and interactive things which I spent hours and hours on when I was younger. Put a kid in front of Wikipedia and they'd soon get bored and wander off, it's just pages and pages of boring text.
 
PvtJoker said:
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I went 5 ways on a 1x CD Burner plus 2 x 1 gig SCSI Hard drives back in 1995 (Cd writer £5000, SCSI hard rives £1000 each).
The 5 of us would have the system for 1 week each and my use would be for music purposes doing CD's for my own bands and others.
The second bloke who had it was downloading stuff from Bulletin Boards all over the world with BT Engineer codes and he got raided.
When they went upstairs they found 50x Encarta 95 copies ready to be sold at £50 each (it was £350) and they confiscated the hardware :(
On the opening day of Millennium Computers (Overclockers) I bought my second CD burner which was a Teac 4x for £450 plus a £150 SCSI to drive it.
 
Encarta was great :D

Only thing i ever really used wikipedia for in school was to see who could get from one word to another unrelated fastest! best game ever.
 
Dimple said:
I went 5 ways on a 1x CD Burner plus 2 x 1 gig SCSI Hard drives back in 1995 (Cd writer £5000, SCSI hard rives £1000 each).
The 5 of us would have the system for 1 week each and my use would be for music purposes doing CD's for my own bands and others.
The second bloke who had it was downloading stuff from Bulletin Boards all over the world with BT Engineer codes and he got raided.
When they went upstairs they found 50x Encarta 95 copies ready to be sold at £50 each (it was £350) and they confiscated the hardware :(
On the opening day of Millennium Computers (Overclockers) I bought my second CD burner which was a Teac 4x for £450 plus a £150 SCSI to drive it.
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Dam bet you were ****ed at loosing that.
 
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