Word: 1980s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After installing the backbone of the computer network in the late 1980s and early '90s, Harvard left its use to individual parts of the community...
...bottom line was that these shoes were as much about the teams as they were about the players, which exemplified the NBA during its glory years of the 1980s. Players were identified prominently with their teams--Larry and the Celtics, Magic and the Lakers, Dr. J with the 76ers--and fan bases were built up through the success of a consistent group of players. From year to year, a fan knew that the same core group of players was going to make up their team...
Over the Internet, of course. After studiously avoiding the info highway for most of the 1980s, the music industry is getting wired with a vengeance, and that's changing everything: how bands get heard, how performers develop followings, even how music gets distributed. In the past two years thousands of Websites catering to millions of fans have sprung into existence, from tiny one-computer home pages for garage bands in Montana to world-class monster sites like New York City-based N2K www.n2k.com) which offers thousands of titles, stages regular live Netcasts, and announced last week that it had hired...
...there has been any consolation for proud Russian scientists, it's that these problems have occurred out of sight of Western eyes. But the space agency--long a symbol of Russian technical prowess and widely considered to be the best in the world as recently as the late 1980s--could not slip so quietly into eclipse...
...infamous for blowing its hard-won head start in the desktop-personal-computer business in the early 1980s. Now it's staging a credible come-from-behind charge in the laptop marketplace with a series of thin, lightweight machines that perform well and look great. The strongest of the wonderful bunch is the 133-MHz Pentium-powered 760ED. With a luminous 12.1-in. screen, 16 MB of memory standard in each computer and a large 2.1-GB hard drive and built-in fax modem, the 6.7-lb. computer is powerful enough to handle the strictest demands of Road Warrior computing...