Show HN: Encarta 95 Web

Posted by gitgud 1 day ago

Encarta is super nostalgic, and I was surprised it wasn't available to use online. So I embarked on the difficult task of making it so.

The way this works is the most convoluted, nonsense and brittle system ever... but it works as a statically hosted gh-pages site!

Please note: All the material on this site is freely available through the internet archive (see github readme)

Comments

Comment by sucrose 23 hours ago

I got carried away and started playing the Age of Empires Demo from the desktop after I exited Encarta

Comment by pixel_popping 22 hours ago

Back to prompting now.

Comment by tadfisher 14 hours ago

Just checked, the Soundgarden clip is in its proper place on the Rock Music article. Fantastic work.

Comment by gitgud 12 hours ago

Nice! Here’s the permalink for “Rock Music” (it’s funny how this is implemented)

Comment by karim79 21 hours ago

Oh God I remember running this on my dad's computer which had the first CD-ROM drive I had seen. I felt like I was in a spaceship

Comment by alexwrich 5 hours ago

NICE - thank u

Comment by BorisMelnik 18 hours ago

wow blast from the past. I do beleive this exact version prob in exactly 95 was the first CD I ever inserted into a CD rom. lots of fun!

Comment by neronuser 1 day ago

Oh, that's very nostalgic, even though I only got acquainted with Encarta in the 2000s