Encarta '95 Intro

The serene opening screen of the 1995 edition of Microsoft Encarta.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• microsoft
• encarta
• 1995
• 95
• computer
• encycopedia
• nelson
• mandela

[cantorock]

I can remember teachers always telling us "Do not copy from Encarta" for every assignment :D

I used to use Encarta at the library, and loved the first half of this introduction, but hated the second. Even now, I think it starts much better than it ends

[Minic15]

@cantorock But you don't understand.

Willy was a salesman.

[SheriffOfaloaf]

@1rekles1

It was the internet before there was the internet.

[Er89John]

@DRAVIDIAN718QUEENSNY You cant Understand a joke huh? It's Nelson Mandela if i am right?

[DRAVIDIAN718QUEENSNY]

@Er89John LMAO get ya education kid

[AEigner]

My elementary school had a copy of this and Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia from 1993. The cool kids always got to use Encarta, I was always stuck with Grolier's. Joke was on them because the teachers hadn't memorized the content from Grolier's and couldn't tell when it was copied verbatim. Better content too, I learned more. Still... GAH Encarta was so cool and slick.

[TazeMEbroseph]

@Er89John i really hope you are not that retarded

[Er89John]

You can see Morgan Freeman at the Intro page.

[x42bn6]

44 members of the content industry liked this.

[DubyaTeeEff]

Wow... I dunno why, but I think this creeped me out as a child.

[EnnesX]

This came with my P5-100, 8MB EDO, 1GB HDD, Win95 system. I think out of all the computers I had before and after, this one left the deepest impression on me. This era of consumer computing was probably the most exciting, because the changes were really material in making us use the computers in different ways. Quite frankly everything since has really felt only evolutionary to me.

[Mikaelft]

Haha. Received this when I bought my first CD-rom (4x). Damn that was expensive :( cd-rom, soundcard, speakers & microfon... on my good ol' 486 SX2 50mhz <3

[ceredigio]

@Minic15 Encarta 96 had a slightly similar looking screen to this one, it was also the first encyclopedia with a UK edition so the two editions had different opening theme music with different sound bytes. The US one had Dostoyevsky and Maya Angelou (but not the bit from her which is heard here), while the UK one had Shakespeare and Emily Bronte, with a snippet of an Irish reel at the end!