Yesterday it was 20 years since Apple released the operating system Mac OS X, what we today call macOS. Mac OS X was the tenth version of Apple’s operating system for Macs and therefore received the prefix “X”. It was a prefix that had to stick with until 2016. Below you watch Steve Jobs introduce […]
The Delorean model car that is part of the Back to the Future films is a classic and has of course been available in model car form. If you want to buy one of these from Ebay, you must be prepared to spend a lot of money as it’s a collector’s item. If you don’t […]
The music player Winamp was infinitely popular in the past. The player swallowed almost all the media you threw in it and could also be adapted with skins so the player matched the tough style you had around the 2000s. One person has engaged in a real cultural deed and has collected more than 65,000 […]
May 10, 1894 “Wireless” is born when Guglielmo Marconi sends a radio wave three-quarters of a mile. Three years later the Marconi Company will successfully communicate “ship to shore” over a distance of twelve miles. Marconi’s work leads to the commercialization and proliferation of most of the radio technologies we know today.
April 4, 1994. Ironically, 19 years to the day after Microsoft was formed, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark create the Mosaic Communications Corporation, which will later be renamed Netscape Communications Corporation. Andreessen had developed the Mosaic web browser while working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
April 4, 1975. Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates, age 19, and Paul Allen, age 22, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company is founded to develop BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800. MITS is headquartered in Albuquerque so Gates and Allen move there from Boston to launch their company. Eventually they decide to move Microsoft to the […]
37 years ago. IBM introduces the IBM Personal Computer XT, which stands for eXtended Technology. For a price of $4,995(!) it features a Intel 8088 processor, a 10MB hard drive, eight expansion slots, serial port, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM, a keyboard, and one double-sided 360kB floppy drive.
It’s not every day that a video game comes along and single-handedly changes the face of the industry, but on November 19, 1998, that’s exactly what happened. That game was Half-Life, a staggeringly ambitious PC shooter from Valve Corporation that opened developers’ eyes to a world of new possibilities. In the documentary below, youtuber ‘Liam Triforce’ […]
The stylish gull-wing door Mercedes 300SL coupe was shown to the public. With a 6 cylinder engine and a top speed of 155mph, the two-door coupe created a sensation among wealthy car buyers who were actually seen waiting in line to buy it. Because of the impracticality of the gull-wing doors, the company only manufactured […]
