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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @philpem@digipres.club reminds me of how the first versions of Microsoft Bookshelf are based on a modified version of the Windows Help program. The big files on the CD that store the dictionary etc. are just HLP files renamed to a different extension. You can even open them in the Wine help viewer. I have a fond memory of that early version and how the entrypoint into the system was a skeuomorphic interface: it showed a literal picture of books on a shelf and you could click each of them to open them and look things up. They got rid of it in later versions but at the time it really stoked my imagination and showed the possibility of the CDROM format. A whole bookshelf of reference volumes, all on a single disc.