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		millerm on April 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL Encarta was awesome. It felt like it had a wealth of information on a cd-rom. It was quite magical in the early 90s. I miss those days. All of it.

elliekelly on April 9, 2022 [–]

It was one of my favorite "computer games" as a kid. I used to keep an alphabetical list of the other things I wanted to look up so that I could minimizing having to switch between the all of the discs (3? 4? 5?) it came on.

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