warmyourbeans
85078
1969
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Jul 26, 2019 12:00 AM
warmyourbeans
85078
1969
45
ILovedUnicornsFirst
Does anyone remember that game Connections? I think that’s what it was called. I loved that game. There was one part that was super hard.
FeltShardBurrito
Back when only certain things were truth.
fake40nedeso
I kind of agree, nowadays I feel spending more time on desk research and verifying information sources than actually buying/learning stuff
ISeeNippleWithoutLittleKids
Wow. I haven't thought about this in maybe 15 years
rockfireman
Right? Same here, though the second I saw the picture I recognized it instantly, even after all these years.
maincarrot
There was a tank picture that i printed on our dot matrix printer and i loved it so much. i don't know what tank it was. looked gnarly.
maincarrot
and it sounded amazing while it printed.
Albinoturtle90
I asked this kid at work if he knew what a floppy disk was, he didn't.
fake40nedeso
The save icon?
Albinoturtle90
Exactly.
rouverius
Well, kids, it was like internet on a CD ... but with significantly least the kittens and trolls.
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
Just as much porn, though
ZeroCoolisCrashOverride
The intro speech to this CD-ROM is the best. Especially the end. Here you go. https://youtu.be/0fRX4R6MY4A
ThefluteCaptainPicardplayedfirstinhisimaginationtheninreallife
wow that brings me back
Vergenbuurg
It was amazing that you could look up so many different subjects and be treated to a 10fps, 240p video about many of them!
CarlostheBreadmeister
Ah, yes. Encarta. Got it with our Viao back in December ‘95.
tinyhandstinyfeet
Absolutely. Fucking. Loved. Encarta.
pogon
Want an ISO? https://archive.org/details/encarta95
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
World Book was far superior
trelf
Specifically got a SoundBlaster (ISA, manual IRQ!!! ha!!) so the family could really experience it. Only had PC speaker before that...
DeltaBladeX
I not only remember it, I remember loving it. School library computers had Internet Explorer locked out to students, but this bypassed that.
DeltaBladeX
Some of the stuff on the disc would open IE to show HTML files on the disc, and with that, I could go online without teacher permission. >:D
DNIme
When half your class had the exact same info on whatever subject paper.
Jebe666
I still got my original copy that I got with my first PC. Oh the good times!
Zapathasura
I still have Encarta 97 on my win 98 machine.
IwouldliketobecalledLex
Oh man, sooooo many memories
bcg85
That $89 included the main program and then about 15 other CD's with assorted trials and demos. Almost certainly an AOL one.
KillerTofu615
Aol disks were used in my computer class in highschool as drink coasters.
callmethelizardqueen
You could get an AOL disc at the checkout in the grocery store once upon a time.
pogon
1995 Microsoft Home CD Sampler https://archive.org/details/mshome_201711
BobaFettApproves
I fucking loved shareware cds. That's how I got into Descent.
bcg85
Best I ever got was one with a shitload of RPGs including the full version of Betrayal at Krondor and a couple others. Circa 1996.
angrybook
I would get so turned around in that game. I sprained my neck flopping my head back and forth trying to look "right side up"
Setheroth
Pro tip: there is no right side up
Setheroth
WHERE IS DESCENT 4!!????!?? Ahhhhahahahhhbbshhakbkjskjhhahahhh *cries self to sleep
BobaFettApproves
Wait till vr gets more popular. They said they'd love to make another game.
BobaFettApproves
Did anyone play Cyberia?
keyserv
When times were innocent and playful.
SontaranPotatoMan
Nah man, I still looked in there for titties
DropKickHead
Before we all gaped into the demon pit that is... goatse.cx
BobaFettApproves
I knew what you were going to say before I even read that you typed goatse.. I knew by the time I read "we all gaped"
thehumanoidsarecoming
Nowadays gaping is a popular porn search term.
AzizLiiiiiiiiiiight
This is where borderline plagiarism became. Part of my early school life .. and by borderline I mean plagiarism
BanadecCamberbootch
I remember trying desperately to figure out what song played when you clicked on one of the tabs. It's Rondo A La Turk, by Mozart.
BanadecCamberbootch
Alla Turca... Blue Rondo A La Turk is Brubeck D:
Metallicat70
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510ZPt8W38L._SY312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
SuitcaseJefferson
Oh God hnnng the nostalgia
Speedgovernor
This was my internet
BatmansUnderPantsAreSoSoft
These made learning a blast, I'd spend all day reading about shirt I wouldn't otherwise care about
LeapingAChasmInTwoJumps
You didn't know what load time mean until you popped that disk on
VariantMatter
Try Loading Corel on an Apple II-GS
fake40nedeso
BaahPMunnie
Wow! Morgan Freeman looks so young in that pic.
Shismouche
It is Samuel L. Jackson. He made a movie with a jellyfish
trigonman3
It's funny because all black people look alike! I get it! It's not racist at all!
thehumanoidsarecoming
you do realize tons of people on this site thought billy from stranger things was zach effron, right?
trigonman3
I’ve never noticed anything like that.
thehumanoidsarecoming
what an odd way to say that.
slipright
You’ve been Mandela Affected, I see.
juskadog
You've been trolled son!
BreenW
SithShodan
I think you all mean, Nelson Mandela looks like Morgan Freeman :v
rocket86924
That looks like Nelson Mandela
MerToo
now if the lot of y's could kindly go give Wikipedia the three bucks they deserve? Come on, you know you've had more than three buck's-worth
musesf80
I had no idea. https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/microsoft-encarta-dies-after-long-battle-with-wikipedia/?apage=2#comment-250889
TreasonousCheeto
I sent them $20.
MerToo
Hey thanks, because I only sent them $NZ5 and that was years ago, but since then I'm pretty sure I've hit their site twice or more daily
HumanCapybara
I spent so many hours on Mind Maze.
DrDings
That's what that was called! Thank you random internet dude/dudette.
Martellus
That felt like an adventure to my younger self
thehumanoidsarecoming
It's amazing there isnt more stuff out there like this now. History people need to team up with tech people
Zeriador
Oh God, that Jester bastard!
Pacifistic
So, so many. Mind Maze and Myst consumed my childhood.
warmyourbeans
Riven was so good too. Some of those puzzles I would have never figured out without looking at up the solution in Encarta.
ImOnlyHereForTheCookies
Where were you with this information when I was a child?
XanthusAnon
YES!!! I can hear the trivia noise in my head right now...
XanthusAnon
https://external-preview.redd.it/JhkSS3tqxzygqicJj75SmvUWZVIm-CIfx96vL8jOC3o.jpg?auto=webp&s=86b68a40e93580fa571709c65689cd73a7820ebd
MooseFoxx
Wow I have been trying to remember this for years. Thank you!
dakonsept
I dunno man. When the nostalgia hit and people made free, web based emulators for old 90s games, I thought someone for sure would have 1/2
dakonsept
2/2 made a copy of Mind Maze, as well. Could never find one, though.
totallyrealname
That game is the best!
BomHaruhi
That space/observatory "game" too!
WorthwhileAnubis
Myst?
TootersMcgooters
Thor400
you had a gui... faaaaaancy
tehranosaurusrex
I kinda miss these days, everything was so much simpler.
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
There were much fewer dumb people online in those days. You didn't have to deal with antivaxxors and flatearthers and climate deniers.
MultiplePersonalitiesProfile
Stolen
TherealZeroCool
Kids today haven’t walked in the darkness like we did.
MKB94
The phone line is busy, I’ll call back later. Maybe they are on the internet.
IVIunk
Calling Earth, please wait
tyrunn
Haha the internet was the dark ages? You sweet summer child
LandexDotAT
Back then, internet access was a PRIVILEGE! Today is so ‚Omg why cant I stream on 8 devices simultaniously, gotta hatepost in insertbull...
LandexDotAT
...shit socialmedia platform here...‘ DAMNIT!!!
TatooineNomad
The before time. The Long Long Ago.
USAoffendedbyeverything
That was the gold age of the internet, the Wild West etc. Now it’s the dark ages
FlissFloss86Gaming
Enk chhhhhhhhhhh doot kckckckckckkckckkc dooooooooo
Ragnarok987
Ni!
azureraptor
A SHRUBBERY!
FlissFloss86Gaming
......ANOTHER SHRUBBERY!
warmyourbeans
Can you still hear the sound?
NotABadLookingNarcissist
Oh yeah
Zeldon567
EEE ER EEE ER EEE KSHHHHHHH
coffeebyte
https://www.dialupsound.com/
ridureyu
EEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRhyobkhyobkhyobkhSHAAAAAAAAAAAA
ridureyu
Those are also sex noises.
charlietrundlethegreat
Accurate but doi it really slow.
urnotwrongurjustnasshole
https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0