Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this journal entry I'll travel back in time for #MARCHintosh2024. In the mid 90s, when the world wide web was still in its infancy, and most of us still had slow dial-up modems, finding information about your favorite topic could be difficult. CD technology provided one resource that could exploit large amounts of data. I'll be exploring the Star Trek Omnipedia CD from 1995 on my PowerBook 180 using a rather slow double-speed CD ROM. Let's see what it was like to watch grainy video, hear audio storybooks, and more in the early part of the 90s, before we all became interconnected, and hooked to the online data store that is the world wide web.
#Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #StarTrek #Omnipedia #90s #CDROM #Retro
Index:
00:05 Introduction
02:21 Installing Start Trek Omnipedia
07:40 A tour of what's on the CD ROM
20:28 Wrapping things up
In this journal entry I'll travel back in time for #MARCHintosh2024. In the mid 90s, when the world wide web was still in its infancy, and most of us still had slow dial-up modems, finding information about your favorite topic could be difficult. CD technology provided one resource that could exploit large amounts of data. I'll be exploring the Star Trek Omnipedia CD from 1995 on my PowerBook 180 using a rather slow double-speed CD ROM. Let's see what it was like to watch grainy video, hear audio storybooks, and more in the early part of the 90s, before we all became interconnected, and hooked to the online data store that is the world wide web.
#Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook #StarTrek #Omnipedia #90s #CDROM #Retro
Index:
00:05 Introduction
02:21 Installing Start Trek Omnipedia
07:40 A tour of what's on the CD ROM
20:28 Wrapping things up
