Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First he ordered a movie: a Sylvester Stallone vehicle called the The Specialist (cost: $2.95). Then, pressing the "fast-forward" button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether...
...assets" in digital form. Giant switches called ATMS shuttle prodigious quantities of data at blistering speeds. A set-top box with five times the computing power of a top-of-the-line IBM PC downloads images from the server at the rate of 30 pictures a second. Press a button on the remote, and the signal travels through cable-TV lines, fiber-optic wires, switches and servers on the other side of town in less time than it takes for a conventional remote control to change the channel on a TV set across a living room...
...selection, and the network responds almost immediately. It feels "alive" -- almost too much so. Whatever category you select starts promoting itself immediately, pitching a product or showing a movie trailer. But if you don't like what you see, you can always move on. Hitting the "carousel" button, for example, takes you back to the main menu. There's also a handy "skip forward 10 minutes" button, which turned out to be perfect for finding Elle MacPherson's nude scenes in Sirens -- without having to sit through the movie...
...Illinois provided the map -- and the compass -- for anyone who can point and click a mouse. The Mosaic team then went private. Its latest, improved version, called Netscape, has quickly become the navigator of choice for dedicated Net surfers. Speedier and more responsive (users love the big red Stop button), it can also be used to order goods from many budding online shopping centers...
Tired of people whose watches beep periodically to remind them an hour has passed? This Seiko timepiece beeps for a better reason: to signal an incoming phone message. With the press of a button, the caller's number appears on the watch face. The combination watch and beeper enables owners to stay in touch without clipping a boxy beeper on a belt or stuffing one in a handbag. Beeper telephone service must be arranged separately...