[game_preservation] Encarta dies

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

Wow.. no more Encarta. That really marks the end of the shareware age for  
me. I remember getting a new PC used to be as much fun for the packet of  
random disks as it was for the computer itself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/business/03digi.html?hpw

On Sun, 03 May 2009 11:23:23 -0400, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>  
wrote:


> The Times has a great article on the history of Encarta, that  

> encyclopedia that came for free when you purchased a Gateway computer in  

> the mid-90s and was a staple of universities. The Underdogs used to host  

> other similar

> multimedia CDs from this bygone age, and it's interesting to see how the

> media has changed from then to now. We don't have news clips on sites  

> like Wikipedia or flash animations, just creative commons text, images,  

> and the freedom to edit them.