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A DIGITAL TIME CAPSULE FROM THE YEAR 2000

In 2000, De Agostini published Città del Mondo · Londra: a multimedia CD-ROM with websites, photographs and video tours of the city. Twenty-five years later, the whole archive is back online — choose a section below.

Internet Point 22 SITES The 22 London-themed websites preserved on the CD — from 10 Downing Street and the British Museum to BBC Online, The Guardian and Harrods. Browse websites »
Photo Gallery 82 PHOTOS A photographic tour of London's landmarks — Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, Hyde Park, Tower of London and dozens more, one image per place. Open gallery »
Video Tours 39 CLIPS 39 short video clips totalling about half an hour of footage. Originally MPEG-1 at 320×240 px, re-encoded to MP4 so they play in any modern browser. Watch videos »

About this archive

Source: Città del Mondo — Londra, 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 22 mock-websites included in the disc's Internet Point, the 82 location photographs from the Luoghi section, and the 39 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; thumbnails were generated for the gallery; an index homepage and a section navigation were added. 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