#encarta

The time period the story is set in is only 2'000 years after the first civilisations had formed, but given that they live in a desert world inside an hour-glass the size of Earth, it's fair to assume they'll have computers in the distant future (plenty of silicon available), and when they do, there will be #Encarta! Just a quick mockup of a website for my book based on Encarta 96 since making an encyclopedia of the story world is something I'm considering. 5KB of HTML+#CSS, no JS, noAI Get the book free as a PDF/epub here: https://camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #webdev #retrocomputing

Where do you want to go today? https://camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #retrocomputing #microsoft #encarta #webdev #html #css

They told me I could become anything I wanted So I became #Encarta #worldglass #webdev

I'm not certain about the background watermark. It _is_ on brand though. Where did I get it? It's Clipart. No, not "I googled 'clipart'" Clipart, _actual Clipart_. #worldglass #encarta #retrocomputing #webdev #html #css

Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Yes, I absolutely am going to plunder the public domain, yarr. #worldglass #encarta #retrocomputing #html #css

Easy: Recreate #Win95 / #Encarta in #HTML + #CSS Hard: One tiny icon boi #worldglass #retrocomputing

Omigosh, I think I've just invented a completely new #HTML / #CSS technique! :O How do I explain this? HTML/CSS has popovers now -- if you add a `popover` attribute to an element, it gets hidden by default and any `` or `` (oddly, *only* those elements allowed) that points to it with `popovertarget` will make the popover appear. Nice, but now you have two elements -- the thing you click, and the popover that appears. I wanted to make the image thumbnail on the left, open an expanded version when clicked on. Two elements, right? The one in the sidebar, and a copy for the big popover. Two copies of the image, two copies of the text. I discovered how to make an element popover itself. Ah, but that tiny image in the sidebar isn't going to do when you expand it to fill the screen, no? By using a `srcset` attribute, you can have multiple images that are chosen based on the size of the element... ```html ``` In the screenshots, you are looking at the *same* `` element as in the sidebar popped out to fill the screen. All in HTML / CSS. No #javascript! This is probably a *big deal* to those who understand what it means. #webdev #programming #encarta #retrocomputing

📚 Britannica Ruled for 244 Years. Then Came a $1.50 Disc - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14CYBQB6JcA #encarta #britannica #wikipedia #retrocomputing

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just how bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just look at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing