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March 31, 2009 4:30 AM

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Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Luminair

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March 31, 2009 7:05 AM

microsoft is shutting down encarta. I wish the information held within would be put to good use :(

truly the end of an http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563884/Era.html
- Maarten Goldstein
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:06 AM
  
  funny, i didnt even know it existed these days
  - Luminair
    
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    March 31, 2009 7:07 AM
    
    not funny
  - losimagic
    
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    March 31, 2009 7:22 AM
    
    I didn't either. As an experiment I looked up 'Bee' on both Encarta and Wikipedia, Wikipedia wins by 100 miles, no wonder Encarta are calling it quits.
    
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557794/Bee.html vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee
    
    When it first came out though it was a superb application, I loved it, especially figuring out interesting ways to destroy planets with their orbit simulator.
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      March 31, 2009 7:24 AM
      
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      - Thomas Hace
        
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        March 31, 2009 7:44 AM
        
        I played this so much
    - Bull
      
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      March 31, 2009 7:41 AM
      
      Wow. 'Bee' is a good example.
    - davidc02
      
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      March 31, 2009 9:44 AM
      
      And there´s no ads on wikipedia
- snuff
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:06 AM
  
  Damn I haven't used Encarta since I was like 14
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    March 31, 2009 7:08 AM
    
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  - MacemanInTW
    
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    March 31, 2009 7:08 AM
    
    I was just about to post the same thing. I haven't used it since 8th grade or so...I really didn't know it was still around!
  - Dontdrop
    
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    March 31, 2009 8:07 AM
    
    All my 5th grade assignments were copy-paste jobs from Encarta. Oh the memories.
    - MacemanInTW
      
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      March 31, 2009 8:35 AM
      
      Haha. Yeah, at the time nobody used a computer at all, so I was able to pretty much rip everything straight from encarta.
- yoonix
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:08 AM
  
  wikipediowned
  - m0rfus
    
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    March 31, 2009 7:33 AM
    
    ^^ better than any MS product
    - Degenerate
      
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      March 31, 2009 7:41 AM
      
      bullshit, the Janis Joplin information is constantly changing and mostly incorrect.
      - FrayLo
        
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        March 31, 2009 7:46 AM
        
        maybe someone is making a movie loosely based on her life, but because of legal issues cannot actually use her information
        
        Degenerate
        
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        March 31, 2009 7:50 AM
        
        That's just a ridiculous notion fraylo. Ridiculous.
        
        FrayLo
        
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        March 31, 2009 7:52 AM
        
        i was lolling hard last week when we saw the world through kenneth's eyes
        
        Degenerate
        
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        March 31, 2009 8:10 AM
        
        I dont think we watched that one yet
      - action wombmate
        
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        March 31, 2009 8:12 AM
        
        Maybe you should stop changing it?
    - ieGod
      
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      March 31, 2009 8:29 AM
      
      It's inconsistent and extremely pedantic. It's simultaneously awesome and horrible.
      - action wombmate
        
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        March 31, 2009 8:37 AM
        
        A few years ago i saw some independent review that compared errors between Wikipedia and an established print Encyclopedia, I don't remember which one. The errors/article ratio was nearly the same, with Wikipedia's being slightly worse.
        
        evildanish
        
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        March 31, 2009 8:58 AM
        
        I remember reading something similar. I think the comparison was with Encyclopædia Britannica, and as I remember, Wikipedia was actually slightly more accurate.
        
        ieGod
        
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        March 31, 2009 9:19 AM
        
        From inconsistent I mean from article to article, format to format.
- DHAvatar
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:08 AM
  
  I remember finding old Encarta CDs from 1998 and before that a bookshelf with physical encyclopedia books. Now everything is Wikipedia.
- stgdz
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:10 AM
  
  Well the free internet kills another business. I do wonder if we will see a positive job creation from the internet in the long run.
  - davidc02
    
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    March 31, 2009 9:46 AM
    
    Free? There´s still a fee to access the web, and wikipedia gets millions in donations... Nothing is free.
- FiReaNG3L
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:13 AM
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era - much better
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  March 31, 2009 7:14 AM
  
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  - RikiTiki2
    
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    March 31, 2009 8:51 AM
    
    You pronounce it earl?
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  March 31, 2009 7:16 AM
  
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- guido anchovy
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:20 AM
  
  I'm sure they'll print out all of the information and then give it to the Power Team so they can tear it in half.
- Mad Brahmin Disease
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:31 AM
  
  Fixed: http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=American+icon
- jcupitt
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:39 AM
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta ... updated already, hehe
- disembodied potato
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:48 AM
  
  when i first made the big leap from an amiga to a windows 3.1 pc Encarta was mind blowing. It was the first thing i loaded up to impress people.
  - treefingers1
    
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    March 31, 2009 8:12 AM
    
    Same! I loaded up the Kennedy speech and the Hindenburg video to show people the future of multimedia.
- node
  
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  March 31, 2009 7:54 AM
  
  A shame, but even as a kid I found the entries insanely limited. Fun to browse but not actually that useful.
- proclone1
  
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  March 31, 2009 8:04 AM
  
  lol encarta, talk about flashback to 6th grade!
- peanut-
  
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  March 31, 2009 8:10 AM
  
  I still have my Encarta 95 cd. It had videos!
  - LoioshDwaggie
    
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    March 31, 2009 8:23 AM
    
    MULTIMEDIA CDROM
    - excessus
      
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      March 31, 2009 9:15 AM
      
      Boy was I tired of those CDROMs full of useless videos and stuff... what an era.
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  March 31, 2009 8:15 AM
  
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- treefingers1
  
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  March 31, 2009 8:17 AM
  
  As a reference tool, it was pretty shitty. But it got me excited to learn like no book ever did. The extras about music, astronomy, etc. were just phenomenal.
  - davidc02
    
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    March 31, 2009 9:47 AM
    
    indeed..
- Geoffrois
  
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  March 31, 2009 8:21 AM
  
  I really had no idea it existed before yesterday. Why would it never come out in google searches?
  - Geoffrois
    
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    March 31, 2009 8:21 AM
    
    I mean, the web version.
    - biskits
      
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      March 31, 2009 9:25 AM
      
      because Google and Microsoft are in a heated battle for pretty much all of the internet
- Wolfanoz
  
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  March 31, 2009 9:18 AM
  
  I can remember Encarta being the most amazing thing ever to use for college. Just being able to look things up on a whim was awesome.
- K1Bond007
  
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  March 31, 2009 9:52 AM
  
  I still used the dictionary that was included in like Encarta 1999 right up till January of this year. Loved that program. Small and had a shortcut on my taskbar so that I could look up stuff in no time.
- niceguynick
  
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  March 31, 2009 9:52 AM
  
  How weird is this, I remember being a super horny kid getting off on the nakedness on my Encarta 95 cd-rom. There wasn't much on it at all but there was a video of a woman giving birth and thats about as exciting as it got. Disgusting. Diagrams can only do so much..
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