The 90’s: Old Friends
I found some old friends while digging through some stuff in my parents’ basement yesterday.
The Zip drive was a particular favorite although I no longer have my original purple external one that connected via parallel port and had a printer pass-through. I remember really bragging to my friends over the fact that I could fit like a hundred floppies onto my awesome new Zip disk. The Windows/DOS manual was leftover from my first computer. Some of the other stuff was all hooked up to my first computer.
The 90’s: Modem-to-Modem Death-Match
When playing multiplayer death-match meant that anyone trying to call your parents would be hearing a busy signal for a few hours.
Windows 95 Security
Wait for it….. Wait for it…..
originalgameboy:
Security problem? Party like it’s Win-dows 95!
Windows 95 Startup Sound
Man if that doesn’t bring back memories I don’t know what does.
deceptiion:
Ahh good old Nostalgia!
Windows 95 Startup sound!
Before Google: “The Internet Yellow Pages”
Remember the internet before Google in the early and mid 90’s. It was really hard to find anything if it even existed in the first place. Eventually we had Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, and Yahoo but even before then you had your trusty Internet Yellow Pages book. It wasn’t much but it was something. If you are interested in some other Pre-Google ways that we got around on the Internet then check out this video from Net Cafe from 1998.
Want to see some articles and computer ads from 1996? Check out this online issue of InfoWorld magazine on Google Books!
Highlights:
Gateway Ad $5,088 & $6,823 !!!!!
“Net Cafe (formerly Internet Cafe) was a US television series documenting the internet boom of the late 1990s. It was broadcast from 1996 to 2002 and hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries. The show was effectively a “spinoff” of the long running PBS series Computer Chronicles” - Wikipedia
1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.
Then at the end of 1990, a revolution took place that changed the way we live today.
Computer Chronicles - Your New Personal Computer (1994 ?)
Not sure of the date on this one exactly.
avdisco:
COMPUTER CHRONICLES is the bomb.
Highlights:
Besides the great intro by Stewart Cheifet, Compuserve, the size of those expansion boards, giant external CD-Rom drives, and joystick ports!
“Net Cafe (formerly Internet Cafe) was a US television series documenting the internet boom of the late 1990s. It was broadcast from 1996 to 2002 and hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Jane Wither, and Andrew deVries. The show was effectively a “spinoff” of the long running PBS series Computer Chronicles” - Wikipedia
“This is the very first episode of the Net Cafe series. It was shot on location at a cybercafe in San Francisco called CoffeeNet. It looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet. Guests include Dan Farmer, author of SATAN and COPS; Eliaz Levi (aka Aleph 1), webmaster of underground.org and Bugtraq; also “Omega” and “White Knight” from Cult of the Dead Cow. Originally broadcast in 1996.” - Archive.org
Images from archive.org
Highlights:
That HAIR!
