technological tidal wave. so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just got your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were, in 1990, a disconnected device. it was a brick, right, inside your house, that let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was, essentially, a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we are still islands, and we are 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. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? well, i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple
so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you ve brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve 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 you d never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we re still islands, and we re 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. so 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 spe
See . This is the brilliance of the show. I say always keep them running. All the time running, run. Run. Run, yasmine, run like the wind. In the 90s, were going to revolutionize Human Communication using desktop computers. Youve got mail. What is the worldwide web . In the world of computers its Kill Or Be Killed. Please welcome bill gates. Do you agree or disagree you have a monopoly . Check out windows 95. This is imac. Its a technological revolution thats taking the way we do everything from making friends to falling in love. When the new millennium arrives so will a technological tidal wave. 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. St
the net began back in 1969. it was a tool of the pentagon. but nowadays just about anyone with a computer and a modem can join in. the internet was a really dorky, hard to use, and extremely nerdy thing. none of your friends would have been on this. just fellow people in tech. the internet really was not a huge factor in the early 90s. but netscape changed things. they re calling him the next bill gates. 24-year-old marc andreessen. 15 months ago, andreessen, fresh out of the university of illinois, helped start a company called netscape. at 11:00 a.m. this morning, the company s stock went public, and wall street went bonkers. so what does netscape produce that now makes the company worth $2.9 billion? this, the netscape navigator, software which makes it easy for people to connect to the global computer network called the internet. microsoft has a long history of feeling threatened by hot new upstarts. you could easily argue that bill
superhighway it is called internet, the net began back in 1969. it was a total of the pentagon. but nowadays, just about anyone with a computer and a modem can join in. the internet was a really dorky, hard to use, an extremely nerdy thing. none of your friends would ve been on this. just, fellow people in tech. the internet, really, was not a huge factor in the early 90s. but that change things. they are calling in the next bill gates. 24-year-old mark andreasen, 15 months ago, andreasen, fresh out of the university of illinois, helped start a company called netscape. at 11:00 a.m. this morning, the company s stock went public, and wall street went bonkers. so what does netscape produce that now makes the company worth $2.9 billion? this, the netscape navigator, software which makes it easy for people to connect to the global computer network called the internet. microsoft has a long history of feeling threatened by hot