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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interesting things about Hogwarts in the Potter books is that it contains no technology at all. Light is provided by torches and heat by massive fireplaces. Who needs electricity when you have plenty of wizards and magic wands? Who, for that matter, requires mail pickup and delivery when a squadron of trained owls flies messages to and from the school? Technology is for Muggles, who rely on contraptions because they cannot imagine the conveniences of magic. Who wouldn't choose a wizard's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...more on teaching kids about money, see our website at time.com/personal You can e-mail Amy at timefamily@aol.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piggy-Bank Blues | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...answers e-mail faster than a speeding bullet. He's able to blow up imaginary worlds with a single keystroke. Gabe L. Newell '84 may not be a card-carrying superhero, but for fans of the computer gaming world, he comes pretty close...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Programming Wiz Tops Gaming Market | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...definitely got my foot in the door at Microsoft," he writes in an e-mail message. "I'm pretty sure it wasn't having a one-day towel boy item on my resume that aroused Steve Ballmer's interest...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Programming Wiz Tops Gaming Market | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...series of nasty crashes, it's a lead that just keeps getting bigger as the growing variety of listed items attracts more buyers, which in turns attracts more sellers. How to fight the network effect, a rule that says networks ?- be they made up of fax machines, e-mail or online auctions ?- become exponentially more useful with more users? The answer is simple ?- with a network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Auction Network to Challenge eBay | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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