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It was with some nostalgia and sadness that I noted the death of the print
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica last week. It's yet another casualty of
our rapid move to a digital world. The EB survived for 244 years, but interest
was clearly not there for a set of books costing more than a thousand dollars
that was out of date before it was off the presses.
I started to think about the evolution of encyclopedias and remember all the
CD-ROMS I had in the past that were filled with information and seemed such a
wonder. My first memory is the Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia. It came out
in 1987, a few years after the first Mac appeared. It survived through several
editions, but was taken off the market in 2003.
Then came Encarta from Microsoft. It was a US$50.00 CD that was heavy on
multimedia, but rather light on depth. It had 66,000 articles and lots of
pretty pictures. Encarta was introduced in the 90s, and was pulled off the
market in 2009.
The early encyclopedias has a lot of people longing for the grand daddy of
reference books, the Encyclopedia Britannica. It finally ...
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