So youve just bought your first personal computer, youve brought it home from the store, youre unpacking it and then comes the moment of truth. If youve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. And he went off and started a Company Called next. After he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. Why did you leave apple . Well, why did i leave apple . I was asked to leave. Yeah, i was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spending the rest of my life there, but didnt wo
In the 90s, were going to revolutionize human communication using desktop computers. Youve got mail. What is the World Wide Web . In the world of computers its kill or be killed. At a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10 of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. Apart from bill gates. People didnt get how much today were introducing Microsoft Windows version 3. Bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part Holden Caulfield from catcher in the rye. At 19, he dropped out of harvard to Design Computer Software with his friend paul allen. They came up with a system that operates 90 of the personal computers today. Microsoft was making a lot of money then. They were charging 200, 300, 400 for say a word processing package that was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. Hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. Of course, he does have at least one secret. But well fix that. Is it true that y
So youve just bought your first personal computer, youve brought it home from the store, youre unpacking it and then comes the moment of truth. If youve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. And he went off and started a Company Called next. After he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. Why did you leave apple . Well, why did i leave apple . I was asked to leave. Yeah, i was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spending the rest of my life there, but didnt wo
So youve just bought your first personal computer, youve brought it home from the store, youre unpacking it and then comes the moment of truth. If youve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. And he went off and started a Company Called next. After he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. Why did you leave apple . Well, why did i leave apple . I was asked to leave. Yeah, i was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spending the rest of my life there, but didnt wo
So youve just bought your first personal computer, youve brought it home from the store, youre unpacking it and then comes the moment of truth. If youve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. And he went off and started a Company Called next. After he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. Why did you leave apple . Well, why did i leave apple . I was asked to leave. Yeah, i was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spending the rest of my life there, but didnt wo