2026-07-03 10:43 UTC
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@buherator@infosec.place 2026-07-03 16:55
@Kroc@oldbytes.space As we later learned, most people hated that and wanted to be angry at strangers and buy things instead.
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social 2026-07-04 11:59
@Kroc@oldbytes.space "display this screen in the future" fuck yes
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@Kroc@oldbytes.space 2026-07-03 11:19
#vaporwave looked at the busts of Mozart and the dolphins in the clouds and thought that it meant “this is trippy” and not “universal shared hope”. This is a metaphor for how modern computing is all about looks with no actual meaning or message.
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@zarel@mas.to 2026-07-03 10:48
@Kroc@oldbytes.space I remember not having a computer and reading the printed manual in awe - if it was not Encarta it was a similar software
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@dfstarshine@icosahedron.website 2026-07-03 11:16
@Kroc@oldbytes.space As a kid the Utopian Scholastic aesthetic was so present everywhere and it really felt like we'd sort of come to the end of history and were looking back at it like we were in a museum. I'm sure a lot of that was just childhood innocence but also I think there was just a lot more optimism for the future back then.
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@Kroc@oldbytes.space 2026-07-04 17:12
Help, my inbox! It's not SoundCloud, but I do have a book about an uncontacted tribe in a desert world within an hour-glass the size of Earth: https://camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass
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@Abdulla@indieweb.social 2026-07-03 11:46
@Kroc@oldbytes.space I remember being so excited for the present and the future, it can be hard to explain for people how optimistic we were in the 90s.
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@nebula@beach.city 2026-07-03 11:57
@Kroc@oldbytes.space Also, fuck yea, Encarta
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@jargoggles@kolektiva.social 2026-07-03 15:07
@Kroc@oldbytes.space I had this - it was awesome. There was a game called Mind Maze and I don't know how many hours I put into it.
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@Netraven@hear-me.social 2026-07-03 16:22
@Kroc@oldbytes.space back when history mattered and facts weren't some nebulous form of opinion.
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@pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com 2026-07-03 18:45
@Kroc@oldbytes.space Local Seattle author Fred Moody actually wrote a book about the encarta team, it's called I Sing the Body Electronic https://archive.org/details/isingbodyelectro00mood
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@rozodru@social.vivaldi.net 2026-07-04 12:40
@Kroc@oldbytes.space there was something just "so comfy" about using stuff like Encarta. like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket at night during the winter.
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@forelioned@mastodon.online 2026-07-05 08:40
@Kroc@oldbytes.space And Napoleon throwing a piece of cake at Saturn.
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@forelioned@mastodon.online 2026-07-05 10:11
@Kroc@oldbytes.space I prompted CoPilot to generate a modern version with "modern issues and subject matters" and this is what I got. Fairly dystopian, including the Mad-Max-tank-mobíl, that seems to have snuck in. Quite depressing actually.
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@amber@front-end.social 2026-07-06 15:08
@Kroc@oldbytes.space man i miss those days so much
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@guigsy@mstdn.social 2026-10-16 13:33
@Kroc@oldbytes.space it was an amazing piece of software. Although I was more amazed by the CD caddy loading mechanism the school PC used to run it.
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@grishka@friends.grishka.me 2026-10-16 14:12
The amazing times when tech was competing with pen and paper. I really wish we brought that back by making tech optional again.
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@drj@typo.social 2026-10-16 14:19
@Kroc@oldbytes.space impeccable "Display this screen in the future" checkbox. Which is checked. because you are displaying this screen in the future. now.
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@mpwg@fedi.at 2026-10-16 14:39
@Kroc@oldbytes.space @Gargron@mastodon.social Encarta was one of my favorite programs
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@jmichaelward@phpc.social 2026-10-16 14:40
@Kroc@oldbytes.space The journey from here to Ow, My Balls!
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@nske@ravenation.club 2026-10-16 14:47
@Kroc@oldbytes.space Prominent Nelson Mandela there, before the right started trying to erase him.
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@paninid@mastodon.world 2026-10-16 15:25
@Kroc@oldbytes.space @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com Never forget what they took from us.
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@jimmylittle@hachyderm.io 2026-10-16 15:47
@Kroc@oldbytes.space @Gargron@mastodon.social I loved Encarta on CD. Everyone back then thought CDs were the end of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Turns out it wasn't CDs, it was Wikipedia.
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@rezmason@merveilles.town 2026-10-16 18:21
@Kroc@oldbytes.space From this vibe and whatever brand identity Discovery Channel had at the time, sprung into being my lifelong sense of wonder and optimism. I am, I was, and I always will be, ready to learn motherfuckers 🧑🔬🔭🤩🔬⚗️