I'm aged.

Yes, I remembered it, too. I was very fascinating as a child 😊

Man, I spent so much time exploring the educational CDs in the 90s.

To this day #utopianScjolastic aesthetic makes me quite melancholic - for a brief period of time it made me feel that the future was bright.

Well, at least I was lucky enough to be commissioned for an illustration based on it, so I had an excuse to go dig into those again.

Now I want to browse some again 😀

Microsoft Cinemania was my favourite and the only one I had access to and cared to buy... I have found nothing to surpass its glory in the "modern age". Reviews made by just a few real critics, minimal multimedia, lots of wonderfully hyperlinked text. I did multiple backups and I think that the ISO still works on recent systems, used it 3-4 years ago. Such software was curated to be treated like a book which stays on your shelf and does not have to be updated by millions of people.

time to bust out my Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia and drop the CD into the caddy for my 4x speed CD-ROM drive! 😊