[a1o]

The visual map that expands to short descriptions with the sounds, gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta.

Is there anything as fun and interactive that is available today that could be used by kids? Wikipedia is great for adults but it’s just too much information and it’s not packaged in short and visual focus of Microsoft Encarta of the old times. The other cool thing of MS Encarta is it wasn’t too big, it was finite, you could exhaust one topic and then go explore something else, it wasn’t infinite rabbit hole.

[traceroute66]

> gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta

Those were the days !

A bit like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? which used to ship with a physical almanac alongside the game disks.

[The_Blade]

now i have the lyrics to the theme song from the TV show in my head

given the right group and timing that rockapella would totally play at karaoke

[jimkleiber]

lol, I actually sang it (or tried to) to open my college commencement speech :-) Brutal for one sober person, probably more fun for a group of non-sober people :-D

[ghaff]

Microsoft had a lot of CD sets back in the day when there was bit of wonder that you could have all this stuff on your local computer. There was a lot of things related to music, maybe natural history, etc.