Encyclopedia 2000
The CD-ROM encyclopedia, reborn with today's Wikipedia.
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Details
- External ID
- 1278022
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Encyclopedia 2000
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Education, GitHub
Description
A free desktop encyclopedia for Windows, inspired by the CD-ROM reference software of the early 2000s and powered by today's Wikipedia. Free, with no ads, accounts, or tracking in the app.
Enrichment
- Niche
- digital history and reference archives
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- retro encyclopedia interface for wikipedia
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A retro-themed desktop wrapper around the public Wikipedia REST API can be quickly created using Electron, Tauri, or C#/WPF.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 46 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 47 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
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