Encarta, RIP
2009 March 31
I’ve always loved encyclopedias.
When I was a kid, we had an old World Book at home — a set my grandmother had bought in the 60s — and I spent hours with it. I probably read half the volumes all the way through.
But it was nothing compared to the time I spent with Microsoft Encarta on CD-ROM. Throughout elementary and middle school, I read thousands of articles over multiple editions.
Encyclopedias were the first books that were almost entirely replaced by digital copies.
But now, even the digital copies are being supplanted.
