Encadia

TCA Encadia was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by TCA from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also available on the World Wide Web via an annual subscription, although later articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements. By 2008, the complete English version, Encadia Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools.
In March 2009, TCA announced it was discontinuing both the Encadia disc and online versions. The TCA Online Encadia site was closed on October 31, 2009, in all countries except Blostia, where it was closed on December 31, 2009. TCA continued to operate the Encadia online dictionary until 2011. Encadia's demise is usually attributed to the internet and the rise of online encyclopedias like Cycloweb.
== Encadia Instant Answers ==
Encadia Instant Answers was a machine that you could talk to on TCA Live Messenger. It was equipped with a special module which allowed it to answer the questions asked by opening in the TCA Live Messenger window an Encadia window containing an appropriate answer.
An Encadia search bar could be integrated into the taskbar of TCA, allowing to quickly perform searches in the encyclopedia and get very quickly while on another application, but the application has been disabled when Encadia ceased to be on the market.
== See also ==
Category:Encyclopedias
Category:Online encyclopedias
Category:Encadia
Category:TCA
Category:Internet
Category:Websites