The Rise of Microsoft Windows NT
The Rise of Microsoft Windows NT — Steve Lovelace Early versions of Microsoft Windows were pretty primitive by modern standards, but that’s only because Windows was meant to be an interim solution. It...
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The First Browser War — Steve Lovelace The World Wide Web really started to take off in the mid-1990s, and if you wanted to use it, you needed a web browser. Early Internet users could make do with...
View ArticleStarting Up Windows 95
Starting Up Windows 95 — Steve Lovelace Before 1995, operating systems were not something the average person thought about. Sure there were hardcore geeks out there debating the merits of Windows vs...
View ArticleThe Second Browser War
The Second Browser War — Steve Lovelace In the 1990s, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer competed for domination in the so-called “First Browser War”. It took a couple of years, but...
View ArticleA Lovable Lemon: My Performa 6200
A Lovable Lemon: My Performa 6200 — Steve Lovelace It was the spring of 1995. I was 14 years old and a full-fledged computer geek. I had the family computer in my bedroom, and while I had to share it...
View ArticleMy Venerable iPhone 4S
My Venerable iPhone 4S — Steve Lovelace I was one of the last people in my clique to get a smart phone. Back in 2011, I still had a little Samsung flip phone. When the iPhone 4S same out, I decided......
View ArticleProgramming in QBasic
Programming in QBasic — Steve Lovelace Early computers almost always came with BASIC. As the name implies, it was a basic programming language that allowed you to make all kinds of simple programs....
View ArticlePlaying GORILLA.BAS With My Family
Playing GORILLA.BAS With My Family — Steve Lovelace One of my favorite old video games was GORILLA.BAS. It was actually a demo that came with MS-DOS. I spent a lot of time knocking around in QBasic,...
View ArticleHow Microsoft Saved Apple
How Microsoft Saved Apple — Steve Lovelace Coke versus Pepsi. Ford versus Chevy. Edison versus Tesla. There have been many great rivalries in the modern business world. One of the most iconic is Apple...
View ArticleBeOS: The Mac OS X That Might Have Been
BeOS: The Mac OS X That Might Have Been — Steve Lovelace If OS/2 is the Windows that could have been, BeOS is the MacOS that almost was. In the mid 1990s, a former Apple executive named Jean-Louis...
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