[game_preservation] Encarta dies

[Andrew Armstrong]

I remember Encarta, I think we had a different few ones though included 
with our home PC's.

There are some other general online encyclopaedias still (and many more 
specialised ones) - although many are pay-gated ones, sadly. ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_encyclopedias ), but they 
are getting pushed out by Google and Wikipedia, as the article notes.

A loss, but Microsoft would only run something for a profit - which 
Encarta, I recall, was having problems with years and years ago.

Andrew

Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

> 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.

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