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Dell Inspiron Mini Series
“Small screen, big first love: it fit the whole internet in a bag.”
“The whole world on a spinning disc, and it never once got heavy.”
Encarta was Microsoft's digital multimedia encyclopedia, sold on CD-ROM and DVD from 1993 to 2009, later available online by subscription and eventually free with ads. At its 2008 peak, Encarta Premium packed more than 62,000 English articles alongside photos, music clips, videos, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools. It was published in languages from German to Japanese, with localized versions drawing on nat
In March 2009, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing both the disc and online versions. The MSN Encarta site closed on October 31, 2009, everywhere but Japan, which held on until December 31, 2009. Microsoft kept the Encarta online dictionary running, a quiet afterlife for a reference that taught a generation that knowledge could fit in your CD drive.
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“Small screen, big first love: it fit the whole internet in a bag.”
“Zero new features, infinite fondness: the snow cat just quietly napped into history.”
“One language, one framework, one last Turbo — gone with the whole family.”