Encarta, a PC-based encyclopedia that I'd used at school, would, in all fairness to 12-year-old me, be very useful, but I was absolutely using my education as a Trojan horse.

And, in this reviewer’s mind, the two standout CD-ROMs this season are Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia 3.0 ($70-$90) and Microsoft’s Encarta ’95 ($79.95).

Microsoft Encarta was a staple in school libraries and home computers for much of the late '90s and early 2000s. So why did ...

The title screen to Microsoft Encarta 95 YouTube If you went to grade school in the nineties like I did, you might remember Microsoft's educational software titles published on CD-ROM.

Encarta was a wonderful product, too. First as a CD/ROM, Encarta was a very cool digital encyclopedia for the '90s. It incorporated the old Funk & Wagnall's and Collier's encyclopedias.

The Encarta Reference Suite 2001 seven-disc CD-ROM set has an estimated retail price** of $74.95 (U.S.) before a $10.00 (U.S.) mail-in rebate. It runs on the Microsoft Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows ...

Encarta ‘95 was my internet (Image credit: Microsoft) I went in expecting enough walls of text to send my mouse scrolling across the country.

REDMOND, WASH. — Microsoft Corp.’s digital encyclopedia, Encarta, might have pushed its printed competitors off the shelves in some homes. Now Encarta itself has fallen victim to changes in ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft’s digital encyclopedia, Encarta, might have pushed its printed competitors off the shelves in some homes. Now Encarta itself has fallen victim to changes in ...