[game_preservation] Encarta dies

[Devin Monnens]

MSI includes nice packets of software with their video cards. Not that I'm
going to buy another one of them... Most of it is trial software though.

Google and Wikipedia also produce big problems in research. Students today
get all of their information from these places without being taught how to
differentiate between a reliable source and an unreliable source. I feel
this has more to do with the teachers failing to understand how to use these
resources and teachers also failing to teach their students how to look for
resources even 'the old-fashioned way' (or perhaps the students either
aren't being taught this or they just don't care). I wonder if we just need
to have a class that teaches students how to do research at a college level
using modern technology and make that required. Not that I'd be very
interested in teaching a bunch of freshmen that... But I could probably
outline one.

-Devin

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> 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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