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1990’s Tech
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It was the year 1990’s something and something came out as a digital personal Assistant. Something that changed my world to its fullest. What was this device called? Palm Pilot My work started to sell these in the late 1990s and I was able to get one in 1999 for […]
It was the year 1990 something and the Internet was coming forth with a purpose and that purpose was to put information out there. But it was hard to find that information. We talked about Google here. But what was it like before Google? Before Google Some people reading this […]
No, we aren’t talking about the blackberries you eat. We are talking about a phone plus email. Which was a new idea as the internet stage is upon us. What is it It was the year 1990 something and an interactive pager was introduced. What was it exactly? It was […]
It was the year 1990 something and something came along to improve the functions of playing your music while moving about. Something called MP3 and this helped people carry a lot of music around. So let’s break down what the MP3 player is all about. MP3 Audio To understand what […]
It was the year 1990 something and we have moved from the VCR to record stuff off of TV. With the invention of cable, there are just so many things that you can record and besides you would have to change out the tapes to keep recording. Once you wanted […]
It was the year 1990 something and a remake of an old one. Back in 1989, they launched a device called the Gameboy. This was a great change. Gameboy color So if we look back at the Gameboy it was a handheld video game system that you could carry around. […]
It was the year 1990 something and the year of the internet was upon us and with thousands and thousands of websites out there. How would you find the website you are looking for. Well, that is the brilliance of this next invention. History Larry Page and Sergey Brin were […]
It was the year 1990 something and the browser wars were just starting up. Internet Explorer was already been released which was based off the NCSA Mosaic browser. But another browser came out and started to change the way the internet behaved. April of 1994 The browser was once dominant […]
It was the year 1990 something and the internet was coming up strong on the dial-up internet was humming as fast as it can on a dial-up modem. So how can you access this great thing called the Internet. Internet Explorer In 1995, on August 16 Microsoft introduced this with […]
It was the year 1990 something and the world would see something called Tamagotchi invaded the world to the tune of 76 million sold. How it works This is a keychain size gadget for a virtual pet that was designed around animals, objects, and people. How it worked was once […]
With the computer industry booming and everything needs to connect to the computer. There were a lot of peripherals, but something needed to be designed to connect everything to the computer. Someone did Universal Serial Bus USB for short, it connects things like keyboards, mice, printers and other things to […]
It was the year 1990 something and the internet is ablaze at rocking speeds of slowness all over a dial-up modem and Java running on those web sites. But it was also the era of more video game systems. Yes, another gaming system, this one named N64, well the nickname. […]
It was the year 1990 something and the world of DVD’s was coming out. VHS was so 1980’s tech. So the “DVD player is a device that plays DVD’s produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some DVD players will also play audio […]
It was 1990 something and there was a technology that came out that could hold up to 8.5 GB, yes Gigabyte wroth of data. That is 4 hours at typical bit rates. Sweet, right. DVD Stands for Digital Video Disk, well to me at least, it was developed in 1995 […]
When you hear the word “java” you most likely think of a cup of joe or a cup of coffee. It isn’t the carriers of the Goa’uld infant children, they are called Jaffa. There is an island over by Indonesia just south of the Java Sea. Not me man, I […]
We all know the Internet right and what it does. But do you know the history of it? I bet you don’t know what it is all about and what it took to come alive. I could go bit by bit and byte by byte and explain how it all […]
It was the year 1990 something and you have pretty cool stuff has come about and If you are looking at this website then most likely you are using a web browser. Which one are you using? Well, there was one browser that started it all. History This web browser […]
It was the year 1990 something and cellphones where a thing and this thing came out that would turn the technology world upside down. Not only is this a good thing but it can be a dangerous thing as well. We are talking about texting. My History Back in the […]
It was the year 1990 something, well OK, it was 1991 and the first web site was made. Yes, people, the web was around before AOL… So how did this site come about and it wasn’t my website. That didn’t come about until 1997. History Tim Berners-Lee was a computer […]
It was the year 1990 something and then there was this thing called a dial-up modem for the Internet it would change how the world views information Not War Games Back in the year 1983, there was a movie called wargames, it was about a teenager who used a modem […]
Sweet a piece of technology I can get behind, video while I cook my toast, right? Is that what you are thinking when you hear “Video Toaster” But, it isn’t what I was thinking it was. So what exactly is the Video Toaster? What is it If you add hardware […]
It was the year 1990 something and Microsoft, released version 3.0 which became a very widely successful version of the Windows operating service. It rivaled Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga as the windows version had a Graphical user interface (GUI) How it came about In 1988, two developed separate […]
So far we have seen a lot of interesting things that have helped this world become more technology bound. This is the decade of things will start to change the world. The 1990’s and the technology that was invented in this decade. The 1990’s and the technology that was invented […]