Wiki is down? No problem!

Siliconslave · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:41

great, could you look up Hollis’ Paradox for me? Seems to be the only thing I wanted Wikipedia for today...

POB · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:50

I had Encarta several years before the teachers knew about it at my school = easy homework.

iamtheoneneo · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:53

well remember , Encarta along with Laserdisks! that was the shizz.

lcg · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:54

I liked using Encarta.

Pate said:
Oh Lord I remember this (22 ) Also:

I had this too (I'm 21). I also had Pinball Science.

Nossmayo · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:54

Longbow said:
Is that Nigel Mansell?

Was gonna say precisely the same thing!

Deep · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:55

RomanNose said:
Don't be a toilet

Gilly

Kids these days

bledd · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:55

Encarta was awesome, I'd completely forgotten about it

Ace Modder · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:56

Anyone with anyone knowledge of scripts can bypass the Wikipedia closure

PermaBanned · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:58

Ace Modder said:
Anyone with anyone knowledge of scripts can bypass the Wikipedia closure

Yes, but i refuse to give them to you

POB · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:58

Ace Modder said:
Anyone with anyone knowledge of scripts can bypass the Wikipedia closure

Or the escape key

Cleeecooo · 18 Jan 2012 at 16:58

Brilliant!

That thing was a godsend!

SexyGreyFox · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:11

Rusty_Noob said:
Who remembers this?

This has very bad memories for me because I lost around £1500 because of that disk.
In 1995 five of us went 5 ways on one of the first 1x CD writers and we needed two 1gig SCSI drives to run it.
We built a machine and the idea was to have it for 1 week each and my use was going to burn music cd's of artists I was recording.
During the second week one of the blokes had it and I got a phone call from his next door neighbour (who I worked with) at 7 am in the morning.
"Hey Dave, do you know why Wire's house is being raided by the Cops and there are 4 vans and they're loading loads of stuff into it?" :eek:

When they busted in he had 100 Encarta 95 disks made at £50 a pop and I think they were £350 on shop shelves.
I lost everything.

Naffa · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:34

I am twenty one and I remember Encarta, MindMaze, Pinball Science, the lot.

I remember waiting ten minutes for the £2,000 Amstrad desktop to fire up.

Just for an extra touch of nostalgia, who remembers this:

Now I feel old. :eek:

Duke · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:35

Heh, remember Encarta at school. Used to watch the JFK video over and over in 320x240 res or however low it was

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:41

RomanNose said:
Don't be a toilet

Gilly

Sitting on a toilet, sitting on a toilet.

I don't care about Wiki, it provides no help to education.

hux · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:43

If you want wiki that badly, just turn off javascript.

mjt · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:44

Our Encarta CDs are still on the shelf in my parents' house, where they've been for over 15 years! Crazy.
Was very useful when the alternative was ISDN 56k

FWIW, if you hit Esc as soon as the page loads, you can still use Wikipedia

enkoda · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:48

Some of you are lucky, when I was at school computer studies consisted of binary arithmetic and logic gates. :eek:

If we were very lucky we got to use the BBC Micro...

Malevolence · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:49

Just set Chrome to disable Javascript for en.wikipedia.org and Robert is your Mother's Brother as they say.

SexyGreyFox · 18 Jan 2012 at 17:51

enkoda said:
Some of you are lucky, when I was at school computer studies consisted of binary arithmetic and logic gates.
If we were very lucky we got to use the BBC Micro...

Eeeeh, back in my day we didn't even have a calculator but I did have a slide rule (serious).