Looking back at 1990s technology

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In this 50-year retrospective, we’re looking at technologies that had an impact on the world, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad.

Source: Technology that changed us: The 1990s, from WorldWideWeb to Google

Hard to belief we are 20 years past the introduction of the PalmPilot!

I wish they would have mentioned OS/2. I ran it in starting in ’93 or ’94, it was the best operating system available at the time. Which isn’t saying much because it’s biggest competition was Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and MS-DOS. The bar was pretty low.

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