There was no Internet back when I bought my first PC, but there were certainly computer modems.
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Unlike computing today, the big issue for computing in the 1980s was disk compatibility. Yep, as I’ve been crowing all along, it’s the software that drives the hardware industry. That was true in the early 1980s, and it was also insane.
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Because you asked for it, here’s my reminiscing on the life of a computer dork in the 1980s. I’ll start in 1982, the year I first got a computer.
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The popular myth is that a Mac is more expensive than a PC. The truth is that when you configure a Mac and PC with the same hardware and software, the cost is the same. Even so, when people bother to configure comparable systems, they go with the Mac. That makes sense to me.
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Forty years ago today (July 20, 1969), man first landed on the moon. Mankind also read a computer error message that had never been farther from the Earth.
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The name is all over the place. It’s almost joined Escalator and Keenex as a brand name turned into an English-language word. I’m talking of the iPod. But what exactly does “iPod” mean?
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Twenty years ago we had our own tongue. As computers have become more mainstream, the terms we once held as our own are now used in the mainstream. Welcome to my review of terms us nerds use that are grown more common in everyday life.
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I was offered the chance to write Internet For Dummies way back when. I turned ’em down, of course. Back then there was no web, so the Internet was a boring and nerdy place. Things have changed, but as a review, here are some obsolete Internet technologies you might have read about in the first edition of Internet For Dummies (had I written it).
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Yeah, I like the occasional diversion. Part of my journey includes visiting the following mega-time-wasting web sites:
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