Show HN: Encarta 95 Web

(benwinding.github.io)

40 points | by gitgud 3 days ago

12 comments

wafflez 5 minutes ago
What a throwback. Right back to writing "book reports" in middle school.
sucrose 2 days ago
I got carried away and started playing the Age of Empires Demo from the desktop after I exited Encarta
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- usern20260720 1 minute ago
  it is amazing that you can emulate win 95 on a browser tab and play win 95 video games like it's 1998.
- OuterVale 20 minutes ago
  Glad to see I'm not the only one who immediately ditched an opportunity to learn for AoE. It lures like a siren's song.
- pixel_popping 2 days ago
  Back to prompting now.
- nether1 21 minutes ago
  Me too
Brendinooo 8 minutes ago
Straight to Mind Maze for me!
(Mouse is VERY touchy though)
rahidz 8 minutes ago
Immediately jumped straight to MindMaze.
est 8 minutes ago
The mouse hijack feels really weird
tadfisher 2 days ago
Just checked, the Soundgarden clip is in its proper place on the Rock Music article. Fantastic work.
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- gitgud 2 days ago
  Nice! Here’s the permalink for “Rock Music” (it’s funny how this is implemented)
  https://benwinding.github.io/encarta_95_web/#/article/Rock%2...
bananaflag 48 minutes ago
The text looks very weird on my PC, see: https://imgur.com/a/vAMVHc7
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- Cilvic 16 minutes ago
  isn't that how it looked at the time?
karim79 2 days 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
otagekki 34 minutes ago
Wait, it even features a windows 95? nice easter egg
neronuser 3 days ago
Oh, that's very nostalgic, even though I only got acquainted with Encarta in the 2000s
BorisMelnik 2 days 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!
alexwrich 2 days ago
NICE - thank u