Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just happened to get an unusually tough interviewer at Stanford," Lin says. "If you're lucky, you just click. I spent half an hour talking about classical music at the Harvard Medical School interview...
...laid out in a series of public appearances over the past two weeks-certainly makes sense. Before the end of the year, Microsoft will begin offering "one-button" access to the Internet to anyone who buys Windows 95, the newest version of its wildly successful Macintosh-like point-and-click system (60 million copies sold). Given the Internet's well-deserved reputation as a difficult place to reach, Microsoft's promise of a one-stop, easy-to-use gateway ("just click on this button and you're there") is sure to attract a lot of first-time users...
...with every copy of Windows 95. This gives his offering an edge over every other online service promising access to the Internet. "The numbers are pretty simple," says Allen Weiner, an analyst at Dataquest. If only 10% of the 30 million people expected to buy Windows 95 this year click on the button that lets them connect to msn-and through it, the Internet-that's 3 million customers in the first year, more than Prodigy and America Online have amassed between them in nearly a decade...
...smooth over whatever user- unfriendliness still adheres to the latest version of Windows, Bob ties together all the uses most people will have for their home computer into cartoon-like images of a living room, kitchen or den. Many of the objects on the desks and shelves do things. Click on the paper and pencil, for example, to launch a word-processing program. Click on the calendar to bring up your daily appointment book. Click on a checkbook to see where your money has gone. When you get stuck, cutesy characters with attitude help you out with grunts and gestures...
Need to know the current temperature in Boulder, Colorado or Stockholm? Just point and click. Want to hear what's being said right now in the University of Waterloo's computer-science club? A microphone in the office is linked to the Internet. Like to see how other people spend their days? There are live cameras, accessible through the Web, pointed at busy laboratories all over the world...