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@chris I'm not so sure. I saw those complainers before the buyout.
It's very possible that the majority of new users here in this current wave end up being the elite as far as computer literacy is concerned. Even if that's ultimately the case long-term, we're going to see a *lot* of people come here.

@trinsec Nothing for ARPA, and I posted the article on computer networking earlier. It's only 3 paragraphs long.

@trinsec Nor does "web" for anything related to the modern Web. The history of technology entries refer to the "web of food production" that artisans weren't involved in during the Middle Ages and the "web of technical innovation" during the Industrial Revolution.

@trinsec Nope. Lower-case "internet" doesn't get any results.

@trinsec Let me double-check.

Here's something that's missing entirely

@ktetch

When it came to actual disk programs, the first encyclopedia program I was given was a Microsoft Kids program. I think it was called "Explorapedia". It had a frog as a sort of guide and had songs in it as well.

Nice seeing you on Mastodon, by the way!

@friday I was a lot more familiar with the Compton disk version of their atlas. I am extremely nostalgic just thinking about that.

@friday Thanks! I remember having the Grolier encyclopedia set growing up, but I think the only encyclopedia I remember was Encarta.

The entry for "computer crime" is longer:

I think I'll post images here. Here's the article on computer networking:

So my mom (I have been living with my parents since the onset of the pandemic) got a dumpster a few days ago. There were some disks littering the bottom from before it came to us. Today I saw an old compact disk in its protective insert, and brought it in to see if I could read the data.

I now have, tucked away on a Windows 7 VM on my modern Linux desktop, an installed copy of a Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia ... from *1992*, the same year I was born.

Initial thoughts: it's fascinating even at this level, simply as an artifact of the time. The thing is a grand total of 433 MB in size, and the articles I've read are *tiny* compared to modern versions. The multimedia is primitive, and the about page for the program, for reasons probably obvious to everyone here, *doesn't* list a website. Yet ... it's the same age as me, and if I had been maybe a decade older I would probably have been begging my parents to get me this for Christmas on my 10th birthday.

@vielbein @trinsec @freemo It allows text formatting in messages without the pain of using full HTML.

To enable it, go to the third icon from the left in the tweet composition box, click it, and select Markdown.

@vielbein @trinsec @freemo We **do** have Markdown support, though, which is a ***massive*** improvement over Twitter.