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
terry anderson is free. he was the last of the american hostages held by pro-iranian terrorists in beirut, lebanon. in the beginning of the 90s terrorism was thought to be done. people likely to use terrorism to achieve political objectives were dead, in jail or part of the peace process. a syrian delegation is in washington today, ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. we thought the 90s would be a time of peace. not only was the cold war over, we had won. we have before us the opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. the world was changing, and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed america as the nation that would embrace globalization. but there were many people who didn t like that changing america. in maples, idaho about 40 miles from the canadian border federal marshals are surrounding a cabin, where a fugitive white supremacist named randy weaver is holed