I would imagine it was harder to get information on topics as you would’ve had to buy/borrow encyclopedias to do.

Were there proprietary predecessor websites?

Tell me about the dark ages!

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    So you wanna play some basketball?

    https://youtu.be/UPv3KV1pIzA

    My school in the 90s had to ban watching the Encarta Basketball video. We’re in the UK and don’t really have much of a basketball culture but students flocked to the computer room every day to watch it because of the novelty of seeing a video play on a computer monitor.

    I also think I remember the earthquake video, I think Encarta 95 had about 6 videos…