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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.

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 »
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 »
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 »

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.

Best viewed at 800×600 with Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 5