#encarta — Public Fediverse posts
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Omigosh, I think I've just invented a completely new #HTML / #CSS technique! :O
How do I explain this? HTML/CSS has popovers now -- if you add a `popover` attribute to an element, it gets hidden by default and any `<button>` or `<input>` (oddly, *only* those elements allowed) that points to it with `popovertarget` will make the popover appear.
Nice, but now you have two elements -- the thing you click, and the popover that appears.
I wanted to make the image thumbnail on the left, open an expanded version when clicked on. Two elements, right? The one in the sidebar, and a copy for the big popover. Two copies of the image, two copies of the text.
I discovered how to make an element popover itself.
Ah, but that tiny image in the sidebar isn't going to do when you expand it to fill the screen, no?
By using a `srcset` attribute, you can have multiple images that are chosen based on the size of the element...
```html
<img srcset="
pages/images/tower-of-balal-1-thumb.jpg 320w,
pages/images/tower-of-balal-1.jpg 1929w
" />
```In the screenshots, you are looking at the *same* `<figure>` element as in the sidebar popped out to fill the screen. All in HTML / CSS. No #javascript!
This is probably a *big deal* to those who understand what it means.
-- edit: I am coining the term "CSS mipmap" to describe this image technique of creating a pop-out / lightbox with a shared image element -- #cssmipmap
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Omigosh, I think I've just invented a completely new #HTML / #CSS technique! :O
How do I explain this? HTML/CSS has popovers now -- if you add a `popover` attribute to an element, it gets hidden by default and any `<button>` or `<input>` (oddly, *only* those elements allowed) that points to it with `popovertarget` will make the popover appear.
Nice, but now you have two elements -- the thing you click, and the popover that appears.
I wanted to make the image thumbnail on the left, open an expanded version when clicked on. Two elements, right? The one in the sidebar, and a copy for the big popover. Two copies of the image, two copies of the text.
I discovered how to make an element popover itself.
Ah, but that tiny image in the sidebar isn't going to do when you expand it to fill the screen, no?
By using a `srcset` attribute, you can have multiple images that are chosen based on the size of the element...
```html
<img srcset="
pages/images/tower-of-balal-1-thumb.jpg 320w,
pages/images/tower-of-balal-1.jpg 1929w
" />
```In the screenshots, you are looking at the *same* `<figure>` element as in the sidebar popped out to fill the screen. All in HTML / CSS. No #javascript!
This is probably a *big deal* to those who understand what it means.
-- edit: I am coining the term "CSS mipmap" to describe this image technique of creating a pop-out / lightbox with a shared image element -- #cssmipmap
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Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Yes, I absolutely am going to plunder the public domain, yarr.
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Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Yes, I absolutely am going to plunder the public domain, yarr.
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I'm not certain about the background watermark. It _is_ on brand though.
Where did I get it? It's Clipart.
No, not "I googled 'clipart'" Clipart,
_actual Clipart_. -
I'm not certain about the background watermark. It _is_ on brand though.
Where did I get it? It's Clipart.
No, not "I googled 'clipart'" Clipart,
_actual Clipart_. -
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Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".
It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?
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Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".
It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?
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Where do you want to go today?
https://camendesign.com/nomad#worldglass #retrocomputing #microsoft #encarta #webdev #html #css
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Where do you want to go today?
https://camendesign.com/nomad#worldglass #retrocomputing #microsoft #encarta #webdev #html #css
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The time period the story is set in is only 2'000 years after the first civilisations had formed, but given that they live in a desert world inside an hour-glass the size of Earth, it's fair to assume they'll have computers in the distant future (plenty of silicon available), and when they do, there will be #Encarta!
Just a quick mockup of a website for my book based on Encarta 96 since making an encyclopedia of the story world is something I'm considering.
5KB of HTML+#CSS, no JS, noAI
Get the book free as a PDF/epub here:
https://camendesign.com/nomad -
The time period the story is set in is only 2'000 years after the first civilisations had formed, but given that they live in a desert world inside an hour-glass the size of Earth, it's fair to assume they'll have computers in the distant future (plenty of silicon available), and when they do, there will be #Encarta!
Just a quick mockup of a website for my book based on Encarta 96 since making an encyclopedia of the story world is something I'm considering.
5KB of HTML+#CSS, no JS, noAI
Get the book free as a PDF/epub here:
https://camendesign.com/nomad -
a roundtable with several developers who worked on the MS Encarta cd-rom encyclopedias. it's surprisingly in-depth about what it was like trying to cram a bookshelf onto a single disc in the 90s. you can tell they really loved working on it.
part 1:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/microsoft-encarta-let-wizard-do-itpart 2:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/remembering-microsoft-encarta -
a roundtable with several developers who worked on the MS Encarta cd-rom encyclopedias. it's surprisingly in-depth about what it was like trying to cram a bookshelf onto a single disc in the 90s. you can tell they really loved working on it.
part 1:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/microsoft-encarta-let-wizard-do-itpart 2:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/remembering-microsoft-encarta -
a roundtable with several developers who worked on the MS Encarta cd-rom encyclopedias. it's surprisingly in-depth about what it was like trying to cram a bookshelf onto a single disc in the 90s. you can tell they really loved working on it.
part 1:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/microsoft-encarta-let-wizard-do-itpart 2:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/remembering-microsoft-encarta -
a roundtable with several developers who worked on the MS Encarta cd-rom encyclopedias. it's surprisingly in-depth about what it was like trying to cram a bookshelf onto a single disc in the 90s. you can tell they really loved working on it.
part 1:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/microsoft-encarta-let-wizard-do-itpart 2:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/remembering-microsoft-encarta -
a roundtable with several developers who worked on the MS Encarta cd-rom encyclopedias. it's surprisingly in-depth about what it was like trying to cram a bookshelf onto a single disc in the 90s. you can tell they really loved working on it.
part 1:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/microsoft-encarta-let-wizard-do-itpart 2:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/remembering-microsoft-encarta -
Кто-нибудь пользовался Microsoft #Encarta ?
Кто-нибудь вообще в курсе, что это?😉
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Historia de Encarta: de enciclopedia revolucionaria a su desaparición frente a Wikipedia
📰 Título original: En 1993 Microsoft creó la Encarta para revolucionar el conocimiento. Veinte años después sería arrasada por un maremoto
🤖 IA: Es clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: Es clickbait ⚠️Ver resumen IA completo: https://killbait.com/es/historia-de-encarta-de-enciclopedia-revolucionaria-a-su-desaparicion-frente-a-wikipedia/?redirpost=a2580511-ac4d-4992-bb4c-293a05ac50bb
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Article inintéressant d'un universitaire sur la fin de la conversation, mais j'ai un exemple de monde passé idéalisé : les encyclopédies papiers qui n'étaient visiblement pas consultées, en tout cas selon ce sondage de Microsoft à la fin des années 1990 (j'ai pas trouvé d'autres données) https://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2025/11/29/david-le-breton-sociologue-la-conversation-est-devenue-un-luxe-anachronique_6655371_4497916.html
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I bet my 50 cents (around 30PHP) that #Microsoft will revive the #Encarta encyclopedia but this time powered solely by #Copilot (seeing #Grokipedia) #tech #technology #random #ai #bullshit
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I bet my 50 cents (around 30PHP) that #Microsoft will revive the #Encarta encyclopedia but this time powered solely by #Copilot (seeing #Grokipedia) #tech #technology #random #ai #bullshit
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@[email protected] oh, habe ich das nicht gesagt? Ich schreibe hier die längsten kurznachrichten in diesem kurznachrichtenblog. Ich mag nämlich #Wikipedia, die Enzyklopädie mit den längsten enzyklopädischen Artikeln, jedenfalls im verglich zum #Brockhaus, der #Enzyklopaedica Britannica, der MS #Encarta und der großen Enzyklopädie der Sowjetunion. Die große Enzyklopädie der #Sowjetunion wurde übrigens als #Loseblattsammlung geliefert, damit die promis wenn sie zur unperson erklärt wurden, einfach entfernt werden konnten und das im Gegensatz zur Wikipedia ohne #Versionsgeschichte. Und die Encarta gab es wie Wikipedia nur elektronisch aber dafür für #Geld. Wäre vielleicht auch für Wikipedia gut. Und im Brockhaus und der EB sind die #Autorennamen geheim und es gibt keine versionsgeschichten und keine #Belege und es kostet Geld. Hat Silvio #Berlusconi eigentlich schon den Brockhaus gekauft oder die EB oder beide? Wikipedia ist ja leider nicht #käuflich. Das hat aber nichts mit nichts zu tun. Ist nur geschwaetzig. -
@[email protected] oh, habe ich das nicht gesagt? Ich schreibe hier die längsten kurznachrichten in diesem kurznachrichtenblog. Ich mag nämlich #Wikipedia, die Enzyklopädie mit den längsten enzyklopädischen Artikeln, jedenfalls im verglich zum #Brockhaus, der #Enzyklopaedica Britannica, der MS #Encarta und der großen Enzyklopädie der Sowjetunion. Die große Enzyklopädie der #Sowjetunion wurde übrigens als #Loseblattsammlung geliefert, damit die promis wenn sie zur unperson erklärt wurden, einfach entfernt werden konnten und das im Gegensatz zur Wikipedia ohne #Versionsgeschichte. Und die Encarta gab es wie Wikipedia nur elektronisch aber dafür für #Geld. Wäre vielleicht auch für Wikipedia gut. Und im Brockhaus und der EB sind die #Autorennamen geheim und es gibt keine versionsgeschichten und keine #Belege und es kostet Geld. Hat Silvio #Berlusconi eigentlich schon den Brockhaus gekauft oder die EB oder beide? Wikipedia ist ja leider nicht #käuflich. Das hat aber nichts mit nichts zu tun. Ist nur geschwaetzig. -
@[email protected] oh, habe ich das nicht gesagt? Ich schreibe hier die längsten kurznachrichten in diesem kurznachrichtenblog. Ich mag nämlich #Wikipedia, die Enzyklopädie mit den längsten enzyklopädischen Artikeln, jedenfalls im verglich zum #Brockhaus, der #Enzyklopaedica Britannica, der MS #Encarta und der großen Enzyklopädie der Sowjetunion. Die große Enzyklopädie der #Sowjetunion wurde übrigens als #Loseblattsammlung geliefert, damit die promis wenn sie zur unperson erklärt wurden, einfach entfernt werden konnten und das im Gegensatz zur Wikipedia ohne #Versionsgeschichte. Und die Encarta gab es wie Wikipedia nur elektronisch aber dafür für #Geld. Wäre vielleicht auch für Wikipedia gut. Und im Brockhaus und der EB sind die #Autorennamen geheim und es gibt keine versionsgeschichten und keine #Belege und es kostet Geld. Hat Silvio #Berlusconi eigentlich schon den Brockhaus gekauft oder die EB oder beide? Wikipedia ist ja leider nicht #käuflich. Das hat aber nichts mit nichts zu tun. Ist nur geschwaetzig. -
Vais-je récupérer ma commande d'Universalis en DVD ? Le colis été déposé dans un casier trop petit 😬 C'est pas un long fleuve tranquille de constituer une collection... J'ai tout de même pu récupérer une version en 4 CD d'Encarta 2003 !
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Mary K Ashley - MINDMAZE
https://boguscollective.bandcamp.com/album/mindmaze
Remember the times where we were free. For decades, the internet has been an escape from the endless suffering that comes with living. Times are changing, and we must reconnect with the past and save the future. Enter the MINDMAZE and find the truth. History always repeats itself.
#nowplaying #experimental #ambient #lounge #encarta #pc_gaming #plunderphonics #post_internet #rpg #vaporwave #vgm
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#Microsoft approcha #Britannica pour numériser cette vieille dame dès 1985 ! Cette dernière refusa, ainsi que d'autres. Le projet vit finalement le jour en 1993 avec un corpus beaucoup moins prestigieux, ce qui n'empêcha pas #Encarta de se vendre à merveille. Encarta développa deux domaines par rapport aux encyclopédies papier : popular culture & business events. https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Reference%20Wars%20-%20Greenstein_6c4ac193-51eb-4758-a5a6-a4c412261411.pdf
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La Fondation Wikimédia va mener un test A/A pour mesurer le pourcentage d'utilisateurs qui revisitent un wiki après leur première visite sur une période de 14 jours.
Vers 1998, une étude de la Sofres commandée par Microsoft indique que 56% des utilisateurs d'Encarta consultent l'encyclopédie une ou plusieurs fois par semaine et 80% 2 à 3 fois par mois (et ça chute à 3-4 fois par an pour les encyclopédies papier). https://www.lsa-conso.fr/encyclopedies-sur-cd-rom-le-marche-se-segmente,25870
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Episódio 166 – 30 anos de Internet comercial no Brasil – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/08/13/episodio-166-parte-b/
#Podcast #ADSL #anos2000 #AOL #Arachne #atari #BancoRural #BBS #BOL #BolhaDaInternet #Cello #CentroIn #Cisco #discador #EditoraAbril #elm #Encarta #Eudora #Fax #Firefox #FolhaDeSoPaulo #Frontpage #GIF #GilbertoGil #HotlineBBS #IG #internet #ISDN #Ita #microsoft #Mosaic #MSDOS #MSX #mutt #navegador #Netscape #Netware #Novell #Oi #PCComputing #PegasusMail #pine #Qualcom
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Episódio 166 – 30 anos de Internet comercial no Brasil – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/08/13/episodio-166-parte-b/
#Podcast #ADSL #anos2000 #AOL #Arachne #atari #BancoRural #BBS #BOL #BolhaDaInternet #Cello #CentroIn #Cisco #discador #EditoraAbril #elm #Encarta #Eudora #Fax #Firefox #FolhaDeSoPaulo #Frontpage #GIF #GilbertoGil #HotlineBBS #IG #internet #ISDN #Ita #microsoft #Mosaic #MSDOS #MSX #mutt #navegador #Netscape #Netware #Novell #Oi #PCComputing #PegasusMail #pine #Qualcom
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Episódio 166 – 30 anos de Internet comercial no Brasil – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/08/13/episodio-166-parte-b/
#Podcast #ADSL #anos2000 #AOL #Arachne #atari #BancoRural #BBS #BOL #BolhaDaInternet #Cello #CentroIn #Cisco #discador #EditoraAbril #elm #Encarta #Eudora #Fax #Firefox #FolhaDeSoPaulo #Frontpage #GIF #GilbertoGil #HotlineBBS #IG #internet #ISDN #Ita #microsoft #Mosaic #MSDOS #MSX #mutt #navegador #Netscape #Netware #Novell #Oi #PCComputing #PegasusMail #pine #Qualcom
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Episódio 166 – 30 anos de Internet comercial no Brasil – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/08/13/episodio-166-parte-b/
#Podcast #ADSL #anos2000 #AOL #Arachne #atari #BancoRural #BBS #BOL #BolhaDaInternet #Cello #CentroIn #Cisco #discador #EditoraAbril #elm #Encarta #Eudora #Fax #Firefox #FolhaDeSoPaulo #Frontpage #GIF #GilbertoGil #HotlineBBS #IG #internet #ISDN #Ita #microsoft #Mosaic #MSDOS #MSX #mutt #navegador #Netscape #Netware #Novell #Oi #PCComputing #PegasusMail #pine #Qualcom
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Episódio 166 – 30 anos de Internet comercial no Brasil – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/08/13/episodio-166-parte-b/
#Podcast #ADSL #anos2000 #AOL #Arachne #atari #BancoRural #BBS #BOL #BolhaDaInternet #Cello #CentroIn #Cisco #discador #EditoraAbril #elm #Encarta #Eudora #Fax #Firefox #FolhaDeSoPaulo #Frontpage #GIF #GilbertoGil #HotlineBBS #IG #internet #ISDN #Ita #microsoft #Mosaic #MSDOS #MSX #mutt #navegador #Netscape #Netware #Novell #Oi #PCComputing #PegasusMail #pine #Qualcom
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Now the web is full to the brim with #AI slop, I'm turning to... other, more reliable information sources.
Now, if you'll excuse me, Mind Maze awaits.
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Now the web is full to the brim with #AI slop, I'm turning to... other, more reliable information sources.
Now, if you'll excuse me, Mind Maze awaits.
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Fun fact: #Encarta was once ported to #Macs? It was the 1994 to 1998 editions that have received native port to 68k, and later PPC #Macintosh.
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Fun fact: #Encarta was once ported to #Macs? It was the 1994 to 1998 editions that have received native port to 68k, and later PPC #Macintosh.
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The #Encarta Contents page, as shown with the Moon.
(1/5 - 1993-1996)
#tech #technology #microsoft #encyclopedias #ui #design #nostalgia #random #comparison #history
