Over the last few months, I have been talking about technologies from 1970 until 2009. We have moved from computers that had 16 MB of memory to iPhones that have 512 GB worth of memory. 1970 We had Apple and TRS computer, CD’s and Atari 800 and my favorite something […]
1990's Tech
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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 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 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 […]