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What Was It Like to Build an Encyclopedia From Ground Up
One of the products Melinda Gates was working on was Encarta, a digital encyclopedia product that Microsoft ran for a over a decade. At the time, it was really tricky to pick what to include in this encyclopedia because media was still distributed on CDs, and people would not want to buy too many.
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