108 Years of National Geographic Magazine Captured in CD-ROM Collection

Posted on October 10, 1997

Discover the remains of the Titanic. Explore the lush beauty and perilous dangers of the Nile. Uncover the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu. For nearly 11 decades, National Geographic magazine has fascinated and educated readers everywhere with its compelling explorations and descriptions of the natural world. National Geographic Interactive, Eastman Kodak Company, and Mindscape bring every exotic corner of the world as close as the computer, with the release of The Complete National Geographic: 108 Years of National Geographic Magazine on CD-ROM, now shipping to stores.

The comprehensive CD-ROM archive includes all of National Geographic magazine's award-winning photographs, stories, page maps, and graphics, plus classic period advertising from the past century.

Featuring more than 9,000 articles from over 1,200 issues of National Geographic magazine, plus a robust search engine and a direct link to an exclusive area on the National Geographic Web site, this unprecedented collection of 30 CD-ROMs makes the world-class magazine more accessible than ever before. Developed by Dataware Technologies and sponsored by Kodak, The Complete National Geographic is available through Mindscape on hybrid CD-ROM for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh for an estimated street price of $199.00.

The National Geographic Society, founded in 1888, is the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organization, with nine million members worldwide. The Society has supported more than 5,800 scientific research projects and expeditions as well as a major campaign in American schools to combat geographic illiteracy.

Using vehicles that range from its flagship magazine, National Geographic, to a broad variety of television programming, the Society continually seeks to engage people in global adventure.

National Geographic Interactive, which is producing a line of CD-ROMs including The Complete National Geographic, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Geographic Society. National Geographic Interactive also produces the Society's World Wide Web site http://www.nationalgeographic.com.