Show HN: Encarta 95 Web

 (benwinding.github.io)

41 points | by gitgud 3 days ago

12 comments

  • wafflez 6 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 2 minutes 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 21 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 22 minutes ago
      Me too
  • Brendinooo 9 minutes ago
    Straight to Mind Maze for me!

    (Mouse is VERY touchy though)

  • rahidz 9 minutes ago
    Immediately jumped straight to MindMaze.
  • est 9 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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  • bananaflag 49 minutes ago
    The text looks very weird on my PC, see: https://imgur.com/a/vAMVHc7
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    • Cilvic 17 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 35 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