CITIES OF THE WORLD · DE AGOSTINI · YEAR 2000
Berlin 2000
~ The full multimedia content of the CD-ROM, restored for the modern web ~
A DIGITAL TIME CAPSULE FROM THE YEAR 2000
In 2000, De Agostini published Città del Mondo · Berlino: a
multimedia CD-ROM with websites, photographs and video tours of the city —
barely a decade after the Wall came down.
Twenty-five years later, the whole archive is back online — choose a section below.
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Internet Point 20 SITES
The 20 Berlin-themed websites preserved on the CD — from the official
berlin.de portal and the Humboldt-Universität to Die Welt,
the Staatsbibliothek and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Browse websites »
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Photo Gallery 68 PHOTOS
A photographic tour of Berlin's landmarks — Brandenburger Tor,
Reichstag, Fernsehturm, Museumsinsel, Schloss Charlottenburg,
Sanssouci and dozens more, one image per place.
Open gallery »
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Video Tours 23 CLIPS
Twenty-three short video clips totalling about thirteen minutes of footage:
Unter den Linden, the Wall, the TV Tower, Sanssouci and more. Originally
MPEG-1 at 320×240 px, re-encoded to MP4.
Watch videos »
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About this archive
Source: Città del Mondo — Berlino, CD-ROM published by
Istituto Geografico De Agostini (Novara, 2000). The original disc shipped
with a Macromedia Director runtime and bundled multimedia assets.
What's here: the 20 mock-websites included in the disc's
Internet Point, the 68 location photographs from the
Luoghi section, and the 23 MPEG-1 video clips from the
Filmati section — nothing else has been added.
What was changed: videos were re-encoded to MP4 (H.264) for browser
compatibility and are now streamed from a CDN; thumbnails were generated
for the gallery; an index homepage and a section navigation were added.
Italian captions were translated to English, with landmark proper nouns
kept in German. The original Director runtime and the binary
.cxt / .dxr cast files are not browser-playable and were left out.
The original kiosk image-map is still available under
Original view.
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