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| Thread ID: 138637 | 2014-12-28 22:21:00 | The Way We Were....1995 | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1391131 | 2014-12-29 05:33:00 | I speak as a web developer of course ;) A web developer with a train set :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1391132 | 2014-12-29 05:42:00 | Speaking of IBM, wasn't it Thomas Watson who said one computer would be sufficient to service the world's IT needs? :lol: Forgetting developers with or without train sets, whom amongst us without Googling, can tell us who Sir Tim Berners-Lee was, and what he gave us? Honestly? ;) |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1391133 | 2014-12-29 06:11:00 | A web developer with a train set :D Unfortunately not :p Forgetting developers with or without train sets, whom amongst us without Googling, can tell us who Sir Tim Berners-Lee was, and what he gave us? Honestly? ;) Essentially, he gave us the internet ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1391134 | 2014-12-29 06:26:00 | [QUOTE=pcuser42;1213417 Essentially, he gave us the internet ;)[/QUOTE] I really meant who amongst the old farts could readily identify him ... :) |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1391135 | 2014-12-29 08:20:00 | I know that | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1391136 | 2014-12-29 09:17:00 | Interactive infographic of the evolution ( Let's not foget these ones: Alta Vista, Lycos, Hotbot, ask Mr Jeeves, Excite, etc...and Yahoo of which they emerged or become popular around the mid 90's. Search Engines Infographic. (http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-history" target="_blank">www.evolutionoftheweb.com/) of the web. Let's not foget these ones: Alta Vista, Lycos, Hotbot, ask Mr Jeeves, Excite, etc...and Yahoo of which they emerged or become popular around the mid 90's. Search Engines Infographic. (http:) But MS, their Word product instantly increased our work output 5 fold when they released Word 95 (after V6 I think). Even though we had only 0.5 MB hard drive space, and minimal ram at the time. I use to stash many PC drives in our storeroom, and distribute the popular hardware magazine at the time to dozens of employees PC Mag (bit.ly) (Google Books for 1995). The After Hours section was popular (gaming). Sad to see Wordperfect (remember the reveal codes? those who used it) and lotus 1-2-3 go. Excel had buried that product. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
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