Makers of the 20th Century CD‐ROM

Maker’s of the 20th Century CD‐ROM has to be one of the most exciting products on the market at the present moment. It makes learning exciting and promotes enthusiasm for discovery. I was transported into a fantasy world of learning and apart from a minor panic as I whizzed around the screen in a desperate search for the volume control to the introductory music, enjoyed every searchable minute. The producers of the CD‐ROM describe it as “… not an encyclopedia. It is a digital archive containing thousands of diverse documents. And we have shaped these records ‐ contemporary newspaper articles,...