Kroc Camen@Kroc@oldbytes.space

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

Opening screen to Encarta '95. It bristles with positive edutainment energy, known as "Utopian Schoolastic"
Opening screen to Encarta '95. It bristles with positive edutainment energy, known as "Utopian Schoolastic"
0x4d6165 (Julie)@0x4d6165@transfem.social

Replying to @⁨Kroc@oldbytes.space⁩

@Kroc@oldbytes.space funnily enough, my mom's first experience with how scammy the Internet would become was from a later encyclopedia on CD/DVD in the early 2000s. she bought me a copy of the electronic world book in like 2006 thinking it would be a one time purchase but they roped you into a subscription very sneakily