Author: Adi Robertson
The year is 1999. Microsoft, accused of using its market power to strangle web browser company Netscape, is still embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit. The first sections of the International Space Station have entered orbit. Companies and governments alike are working to fix the Year 2000 Bug, which threatens to crash computers across the world. And email is maybe ruining the English language. Welcome to a new year of This Week in Tech, 20 Years Ago.
This February, we’ll be following how the internet transformed writing, music, and revenge — plus stories about spy satellites and dances with computers.
It was the 🙂 of times, it was the :-( of times
Analyzing internet slang, The New York Times notes, wasn’t a new field of research in...
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The year is 1999. Microsoft, accused of using its market power to strangle web browser company Netscape, is still embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit. The first sections of the International Space Station have entered orbit. Companies and governments alike are working to fix the Year 2000 Bug, which threatens to crash computers across the world. And email is maybe ruining the English language. Welcome to a new year of This Week in Tech, 20 Years Ago.
This February, we’ll be following how the internet transformed writing, music, and revenge — plus stories about spy satellites and dances with computers.
It was the 🙂 of times, it was the :-( of times
Analyzing internet slang, The New York Times notes, wasn’t a new field of research in...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...