CITIES OF THE WORLD · DE AGOSTINI · YEAR 2000
New York 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 · New York: a
multimedia CD-ROM with websites, photographs and video tours of the city —
from the pre-9/11 Twin Towers and the Y2K Times Square to Macy's, MoMA and
the New York Times. Twenty-five years later, the whole archive is back online.
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Internet Point 22 SITES
The 22 New York websites preserved on the CD — the NYC
government, the NY Times, the WSJ, Tiffany & Co.,
Bloomingdale's, the Met, MoMA, Lincoln Center, the United Nations and more.
Browse websites »
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Photo Gallery 108 PHOTOS
A photographic tour of New York's landmarks —
Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Twin Towers, Central Park,
Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Wall Street, Harlem and many more.
Open gallery »
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Video Tours 41 CLIPS
Forty-one short video clips of New York at the turn of the
millennium. Originally MPEG-1 at 320×240 px, re-encoded to
MP4 so they play in any modern browser.
Watch videos »
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About this archive
Source: Città del Mondo — New York, 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 108 location photographs from the
Luoghi section, and the 41 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 website grid (rendered
with QuickLook) and the photo gallery; an index homepage and 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.
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