What exactly happened with the technology boom in the 1990s?
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In the mid 90s, when the internet became a common household electronic, many start up businesses tried to capitalize on the mass market audience. Millions of dollars were poured into start up internet companies. Yet since the technology was new to the general public, and some were wary about shopping on line with credit cards, many of those start ups went bust. The internet boom fizzled in 2000. Since then it has gained momentum again.\n\nAlso one problem with the internet during the 90s was slow modems. AOL was the number one internet provider. And there modem was very slow, 56K. That's a snail's pace. When cable and telephone companies started to enter the market, they brought along fiber optic cables, which is 100 times faster than the 56K modem. This pleased the mass market and the internet started to grow again.
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Presume u r talking about impact of national policies on telecom industry growth?\nCheck out the growth of china/india etc as compared to high penetration markets like UK/USA. \nThe diff is that of national policies.
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Lots of stuff:\n\nColossus, the world's first totally electronic and digital computer was built\n\nFirst supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947\n\nENIAC invented (another computer)\n\nQuantum electrodynamics developed by Feynman, Dyson, Schwinger, and Tomonaga\n\nMathematics: cybernetics, game theory, cryptology were devised\n\nWorld War II ended in 1945\n\nUnited Nations established in 1945\n\nNATO founded in 1949\n\nThe Chinese Civil War ended\n\nThe Marshall Plan was implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars in aid to reconstruct the war-devastated economies of Europe\n\nInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) was formed (debatable whether that's a good thing :>)\n\nWorld Bank was formed (same again)\n\nFrank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" was released (great movie)\n\nThe NBA was formed\n\nRock and roll and Rhythm and blues emerged, thus forming the genesis of all modern 'popular' music
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Oh my oh my - how we all forget our roots.\n\nThis is a long story that can either be super geeky or just consumer oriented.  \n\nThe short story is that the internet was developed by a combination of researchers, academics, business folk and free spirits during a period when governments were too absorbed in other issues to meddle with progress.  \n\nSee a few good sources below!
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Necessary technical break-through occurs gradually. A decade back, nano-technology was beyond imagination but today it is realistic. Same way, few years from now we end up with new technology which we havent heard now. \nTechnology is like ladder, you have to make one step at-a-time to reach next step.
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yes i sure miss it. it was more of a challenge then. especially at geocities. they used an isp then and it crashed several times a day. once they even got flooded.\n\nhelp pages almost didn't exist back then and you had to hand code all your web pages unless you had hot metal pro which was a real joke of a wysiwyg editor.\n\nabout the only game then was the great mud wall done in virtual reality. you would go there and throw balls of mud at the wall. wow that was boring, :)\n\na lot of people played mud (multi user dimensional) games via telnet.\n\nnot me i was busy answering questions in the old geocities help chat. back then you could use html in the chats. i was great putting large photos in the room and crashing everyone's computer because they only had 32mb of ram and 14.kb modem then\n\nbefore i got a pc in june 1996 i had a radio shack color computer 2 and 3 and used a 8kb modem to connect to a local bbs at a local service provider. BORING!
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Wow, vague question!  It seems like you are trying to encompass the entire history of personal computers since they became readily available to the public.\n\nLet's see if I can hit some major ones, though I can't tell you the exact dates... You'll have to look them up\n\nApples came onto the market as the first widely popular and readily available computer in the 80s.  Everything was proprietary and software development was limited.\n\nIBM decided to enter the market with the PC, but did not make their products proprietary.  Bad for IBM's pocket, but major turning point for personal computing.  I think this was in the early 90s.  Apple stayed proprietary, the market flooded with IBM clones and software, which gave PCs more value to the consumer and therefore made them more popular.\n\nHardware has went through so many developments, there are too many to mention.  The major ones have been in processor architecture, allowing quantities and speed of calculations to multiply rapidly over the years.  In turn, other components have had to upgrade to be compatible, and new capabilities have allowed for the development of new kinds of peripherals (i.e. USB).\n\nIn software, the advent of Windows 3.1 with its Graphical User Interface was a huge factor in the growth in popularity of PCs (not to mention the flying toaster screensaver).  Every major revision of Windows since has brought about new developments, capabilities, and challenges for hardware and software makers alike.\n\nHope that helps!
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Information Age' is a name given to a period after the industrial age and before the Knowledge Economy. Information Age is a term applied to the period where movement of information became faster than physical movement, more narrowly applying to the 1980s onward. Under conventional economic theory, the Information Age also heralded the era where information was a scarce resource and its capture and distribution generated competitive advantage. Microsoft became one of the largest companies in the world based on its influence in creating the underlying mechanics to facilitate information distribution. It has been estimated that the Information Age lasted from approximately 1971 to 1991. One could argue, though, that it actually began during the later half of the 19th Century with the invention of the telephone and telegraphy. It is often used in conjunction with the term post-industrial society. When information ceased being scarce, the Knowledge Economy commenced. The Knowledge Economy started around 1991 and continued to approximately 2002. The current economic era is defined as the Intangible Economy. In the Intangible Economy, four factors of production - knowledge assets (what people know and put into use), collaboration assets (who people interact with to create value), engagement assets (the level of energy and commitment of people), and time quality (how quickly value is created) are the four key resources from which economic activity and competitive advantage are primarily derived and delivered today. It is helpful to understand that Google (GOOG) is now a serious competitor to Microsoft as it relies on Intangible Economy principles to run its operations.\n\nEarly Information Age\n\nIn 1837 Samuel Morse created a device which converted physical movement into electrical impulses that could travel over large distances. In 1844, telegraphy was used to transmit data along an experimental telegraph line from Washington, DC to Baltimore, Maryland. Slightly more than 20 years later, the first telegraph cables were stretched across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1858, but failed to stay in operation; however, uninterrupted service began in 1866.\n\nBroadcasting\n\nThe information technologies of the 19th century allowed faster and wider dissemination of information than previously possible. However, ultimately such information had to be reduced to the same form which had been the final form for centuries: paper, whose analogs go back to stone and clay tablets. With the development of what was called wireless transmission, when combined with the ability to transmit voice and sound from the telephone, and recording technology, a new medium began to be born, which placed a different final result in the hands of the individual. These technologies would eventually become radio.\nInformation technology\n\nWith recording technologies, transmission, and with early computers, it didn't take very long for scientific advances to merge together into the new field of Information Technology. Information technology is the use of technology to enhance the speed and the efficiency of the transfer of information.\n\nThe information age continues to this day, and technological advances such as mobile phones, high speed connections, Voice Over IP have changed lifestyles around the world and spawned new industries around controlling and providing information.
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As far as booksmarts & the ability to multitask goes, we will be smarter. As far as common sense, I believe that we have already gotten dimmer over even the last ten years. The ease of technology on our everyday lives, I think, is undermining our common sense & street smarts :)\n\nGood question!
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I think there was more of a sense of optimism and greed. To me the 90's were more of a time of adventure and extreme stuff. The 80's were all about me and how I can improve myself.
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Well if u want to keep up the tech trends up to date with out paying then i suggest you to go to this site or watch BBC's "CLICK", which is very advanced and informative. U can also check out the website "www.bbc.com/click". \ncheers:)
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Considering the technology and legal changes in the last 20 years, off the top of my head, I'd say yes.\n\nIs this a specific question, or just general homework.
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Most of us could not afford Cell Phones, The really good computer games were in arcades and took quarters, they replaced pinball.\n\nHome game systems (Atari) were O.K.\n\nThe personal computer made the most difference, and even more importantly the understandable Operating systems and affordable Internet connections that made the computers really come alive and useful.\n\n(Asteroids was my favorite)\n\nI am feeling old now!\n\nHave a great weekend!
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Your assumptions are incorrect. The net gain of jobs has been in the technology sector.
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Wall street goes through periods of greed and euphoria, followed by fear and remorse. The roaring 20's were followed by the great depression. History repeats itself unless the lessons are learned.\nIn the late 1990's easy money was being made by investing in tech companies. It was a self fulfilling prophesy, with Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch only to willing to stoke the frenzy with repeated buy recommendations. When the buying stopped and the selling began, it was every man for himself and the house of cards collapsed.  Tell your grand kids about it 'cause it WILL happen again.
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Take the experience of a well-known cell phone manufacturer we’ll call CellTech. In the mid-1990s, CellTech was at the top of its game. But later in the decade, new players flooded the market, and analog cell phones slipped along the product lifecycle curve toward commoditization. CellTech sought to stem its shrinking margins by developing the next wave of industry innovation: digital cell phones. \n\nAlthough CellTech had a new business strategy, it lagged in devising a new people strategy to support it. The company neither acquired nor developed the skills in its workforce that would enable it to create and produce the new technology in time. Because CellTech had never developed the human capital strategy process that would have enabled it to anticipate a new workforce need based on a changing business strategy, it was unable to execute its plan in a timely way. It lost significant market share and millions in potential revenues.
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Now come on, I remember the computer world when everything was based on vacuum tubes, before transistors & microchips.\nI can still remember HP Basic, Fortran, Cobol, Compiler, et al.\nWin 3.1 was actually a great program in it's time.\nIt, and the other stuff MS developed to run with it, made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.\nIt couldn't have been as bad as some seem to remember.