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The ''Academic American Encyclopedia'' is a multivolume general English-language Encyclopedia , and the first multimedia encyclopedia.

Publisher: Danbury, Conn. : Grolier, ©1997


COMPUTER EDITION

''Academic American Encyclopedia'' is also published in electronic form on CD-ROM , offering the complete text of the ''Academic American Encyclopedia'', more than 33,000 articles. It also includes Illustration s, Photograph s, Animated Map s, Music , and Video . It can be browsed or searched by topic or keyword.

The full text of the encyclopedia was actually available online to 200 homes in Columbus, OH in 1980, in cooperation with an experiment sponsored by OCLC. A year later, the text was available to subscribers of the New York Times Information Bank, The Dow-Jones online service, and CompuServe. An interactive version, including illustrations, video and audio stored on videodisk was shown at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1982. Being first published in 1985, it became the first multimedia encyclopedia ever. In 1992, Grolier (who had published the 1985 CD-ROM edition) launched their own encyclopedia on CD-ROM.

''For more information see Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia ''


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it was published in 1999