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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's the point of paying a professional to manage your money when you can do just as good a job, if not better, on your own? That was the question Hillsboro, Ore., computer consultant Larry Taylor, 40, and his friends asked themselves three years ago. Sick of sitting on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mutual Fund Meltdown | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

It happened anyway. Davis awoke on the morning of May 29 to find four special agents and five local cops crowded into his apartment. They cuffed him, carted off his Power Macintosh plus (inexplicably) 300 music CDs and slapped a $165 fine on him for possession of a can of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geeks vs. G-Men | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Tit for tat, right? Wrong. It was only the beginning of what hacker watchdog John Vranesevich, founder of AntiOnline, calls an "online temper tantrum." Word spread to wired dorms and bedrooms all over the world that U.S. government sites were the target du jour. A group called Masters of Downloading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geeks vs. G-Men | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

He was on his stationary bike, the keyboard on his lap. He did not cry out. He took a dozen deep, cleansing breaths and dismounted and set the keyboard on the floor. He sat down in front of his computer and switched on Audio and said, "Voice activation." There were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith At The Speed Of Light | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

It's 1976, and a handful of unkempt longhairs are hard at work over some odd machines in a crowded garage when a man in a suit walks in out of the California sunshine to offer them a big, fat pile of cash. The group's leader takes offense at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Way They Were | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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