Pre-wikipedia days means you would likely have found me hunched over a 14" VGA monitor reading articles about giant devil rays and mansa musa in Microsoft Encarta as a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

I adored Encarta. My aunt had the multi-CD set, I still vividly remember the animated landing page, clicking on cool pictures to navigate. Having to switch to CD#2 because the article you wanted wasn't on there.

It actually felt magical, and I totally credit it with my fascination with STEM and science, I would spend hours browsing around.