#encarta — Public Fediverse posts

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

#webdev #programming #encarta #retrocomputing

Easy: Recreate #Win95 / #Encarta in #HTML + #CSS
Hard: One tiny icon boi

#worldglass #retrocomputing

Okay, now we're getting somewhere.

Yes, I absolutely am going to plunder the public domain, yarr.

#worldglass #encarta #retrocomputing #html #css

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_.

#worldglass #encarta #retrocomputing #webdev #html #css

They told me I could become anything I wanted

So I became #Encarta

#worldglass #webdev

@Kroc @foone I loved „browsing“ #encarta back in the days.

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?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

Where do you want to go today?
https://camendesign.com/nomad

#worldglass #retrocomputing #microsoft #encarta #webdev #html #css

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

#worldglass #webdev #retrocomputing

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-it

part 2:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/retro-tech/remembering-microsoft-encarta

#multimedia #encarta #softwareHistory #history

I’m THAT old.

#Microsoft #Encarta #retroComputing

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

#encyclopédie #Encarta #CDROM

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

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 !

#WikiArchives #Encarta #Universalis #Encyclopédies #CDROM

Mary K Ashley – MINDMAZE
#BogusCollective #Experimental #ambient #ambientlounge #ambientvaporwave #encarta #pcgaming #plunderphonics #postinternet #rpg #rpgmusic #vaporambient #vaporwave #vgm #Savusavu
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://boguscollective.bandcamp.com/album/mindmaze

#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

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

#Wikipedia #Encarta #Encyclopédie

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

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.

#vintageComputing #Encarta #MicrosoftMultimedia

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.

#tech #technology #Microsoft #Apple #random #encyclopedia

The #Encarta Contents page, as shown with the Moon.

(1/5 - 1993-1996)

#tech #technology #microsoft #encyclopedias #ui #design #nostalgia #random #comparison #history

@Kroc I made this thing... I finally ran 2001 through 2009. Though, there are some errors, Flash related.

#tech #technology #Encarta #Microsoft #nostalgia

@Lucss21a I'm in the process of doing this myself :P You can run #Encarta 93 through 2000 all on a single Windows 95 machine! 2001 up to 2005 (maybe later, I've yet to find out) will run on Win2K

#retrocomputing #win95

did someone ask for the sum of all human knowledge pressed into a disc? (ss inspired from @Kroc)

#encarta #microsoft #tech #technology #random #nostalgia

I dug deep into the #Encarta rabbit hole lately, and was amazed by how you can at least run 11-12 years worth of Encarta on #Windows 98.

For the sake of my sanity, and my disk storage (I haven't gotten around with some spring cleaning), I have '95 to 2001 installed.

#tech #technology #random #fact #trivia

there's something so simple yet nice with the #Encarta UIs from 1999 to 2001 (pics are from Encarta 2000)

#tech #technology #Microsoft #UI #GUI #design #nostalgia #encyclopedia #multimedia

Sorry, I can’t hang out tonight. I have to go to the library so I can use the computer to find at least 3 Encarta citations for my school project.

#1990sComplaintsAndExcuses #Encarta
#HashTagGames @hashtaggames