In these times, the Internet can be considered as a practically inexhaustible source of content of all kinds. But this is possible today, a few years ago all this was much more limited, and even for many it was non-existent. Hence precisely the importance of applications such as Encarta and other similar digital encyclopedias.
In fact, if we talk about these encyclopedias in the form of programs that we could install and run on our PC, the aforementioned Encarta was the main reference. Not in vain is it a product that the giant Microsoft launched at the time and that represented a huge advance with respect to conventional paper encyclopedias. We can affirm that this project was the first digitization of an encyclopedia that first came to light in 1993.
Much time has passed since then, and technology has advanced, leaving educational elements of this type far behind. However, surely many of you remember the arrival of this software with a smile and what it meant for many at the time. Between Wikipedia and the Internet in general, Encarta left behind its initial appeal and ended up disappearing in 2009. As you can imagine, this element that we installed on the computer replaced the endless searches in all those volumes of paper encyclopedias .
Due to the enormous importance that this software had in its day, now that it is 29 years since its birth , some may want to remember its use. With all this, what we really want to tell you is that we still have the possibility of downloading, installing and using the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia.
This is how you download and use the Encarta encyclopedia today
Especially the most nostalgic, in order to reminisce about old times, they may want to download and install Encarta 98 on their computers right now. Well, at this point it is worth mentioning that this is possible, although it may not seem so a priori. For this we are going to use the well- known internet archive that houses a huge amount of old content available to everyone.
Therefore, to get hold of a copy of this digital encyclopedia from the Redmond people, we can download it from the corresponding Internet Archive address . Here you will find the aforementioned Encarta 98 available for download, also in Spanish. Specifically, what we are going to achieve here is to download an ISO image of the program for later installation on our computer.
Thus, all we have to do is click on the link that says Image ISO so that the download automatically begins. To say that the size of this image that we are commenting on is less than 700 megabytes and we can save it on our hard drive. This corresponds to the installation support of the encyclopedia, so we only have to open this ISO in Windows and install it in the conventional way. All this will allow us to remember old times and use this digital encyclopedia just as we did decades ago.