New Release: CD-ROM Today Issue 3 (Winter 1993)

**marktrade** · October 25, 2016

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CD-ROM Today Issue 3

Winter 1993

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**kitsunebi** · October 25, 2016

It's interesting how almost everything being sold in stores on CD-ROM when multimedia was the new buzzword is all stuff that is available free on the internet these days.

**marktrade** · October 25, 2016

It's interesting how almost everything being sold in stores on CD-ROM when multimedia was the new buzzword is all stuff that is available free on the internet these days.

That's one of the reasons why I have such appreciation for this era. There was a great drive to build delightful information resources without the craziness of the internet, advertisements, flash, pop-ups, downtime, viruses, malware, ransomware, or clickbait. Information without clickbait! It's as if history took a wrong turn.

**kitsunebi** · October 25, 2016

I have nostalgia for that era, but good god I never want to go back there. Say I'm at a party and we're having a conversation about something and I want to check the facts or remember the details of something I've forgotten due to my inebriation. I just take out my phone and look it up on the internet. Leave your phone at home for a night or a weekend or whatever and its remarkable how many times you'll wish you had that instant connection to information at your fingertips (mind you, I'm not talking about social media and whatnot, I'm strictly talking about using the internet as a source of knowledge). And literally NONE of the things you wanted to know were something you would have ever been able to find out pre-smart phone era. And even if you'd been at home rather than out and about, in the pre-internet MULTIMEDIA! days you might have been able to find something in your giant binder of educational CD-ROM software if you looked long enough, but otherwise you'd have to spend hours (or longer) researching the answers in a library. But nobody had time for that of course, so whenever we wished we knew something, we just shrugged our shoulders, mumbled "oh well," and promptly forgot that it ever entered our minds. Yes, there was a sort of freedom there, but frankly, I LIKE being able to learn whatever I want, when I want.

**marktrade** · October 26, 2016

I know what you mean, but then again half the time I want to know something it's something like "who was in that one movie?" or "how old is that actor?" and that's stuff one could find in one of those Hollywood multimedia discs. There are times when I could look something up on my phone, but I don't and wait to get home because typing it in on the phone is so cumbersome. Once virtual assistants improve I'm sure I'll forget about it though because all the things we were promised in the 90s will come to fulfillment. VR and AI in a self-driving car.

**kitsunebi** · October 26, 2016

I know what you mean, but then again half the time I want to know something it's something like "who was in that one movie?" or "how old is that actor?" and that's stuff one could find in one of those Hollywood multimedia discs. There are times when I could look something up on my phone, but I don't and wait to get home because typing it in on the phone is so cumbersome. Once virtual assistants improve I'm sure I'll forget about it though because all the things we were promised in the 90s will come to fulfillment. VR and AI in a self-driving car.

You mean Siri doesn't know hold old Christopher Walken is? Well, to be fair, it's a trick question; gods are immortal.

Actually, a question like that can easily be answered by the digital assistant on your phone, but admittedly there are things you'd have to research yourself. Even so, you aren't gonna convince me that driving home, locating and booting up a multimedia disc to find the answer is more convenient than typing a google search on your phone, though.