Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full new issue appears on the web every quarter, but content is rolling and a new piece is added weekly. Icon Magazine celebrates the power of storytelling and the interactive possibilities possible on the Internet. The magazine contains everything from simple text to a few interactive multimedia presentations, and the staff of Icon is eager to teach and train aspiring webmasters and curious beginners in the ways of web design. While the magazine currently contains mostly traditional pieces, it seems to be leaning in the direction of hypertext literature and net art, giving it the potential to become Harvard...
...able to read them under the bedcovers with a flashlight, but now every issue of Mad magazine can be yours. This mammoth seven-CD collection (for PC only) is unabated puerile nostalgia: a comprehensive archive from the pre-Alfred E. Neuman years (1952-56) through 1998. The multimedia element lets you complete all the fold-ins, listen to all the plastic 7-in. (Free Gift!) singles and watch short videos of legendary artists like Mort Drucker at work. The comic strips themselves look a little faded and grainy on a computer monitor, but at least future generations will see what...
...difference in playing DVD movies or running any of the rich programs in the vast, dark Quittner Collection, although the Athlon is supposed to handle multimedia much better, thanks to its 200-MHz bus, vs. the Pentium's 100-MHz bus. (Think of the bus as the highway between the microprocessor and the rest of the computer.) A spokesman for Intel pooh-poohed the importance of bus speed, saying the real bottleneck is elsewhere in the computer. As for all the other benchmarks that show AMD's chip being faster, Intel had no comment, though it has cut Pentium prices...
...What is an Amiga? Fourteen years ago, Commodore (remember Commodore?) introduced the Amiga 1000, a sporty little desktop computer that featured one of the earliest commercially available GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) and a flexible, efficient 32-bit operating system with an array of features, including multi-tasking and serious multimedia muscle, that have turned out to be extremely prescient. The Amiga built up an active user base and a respectable software library, and it seemed ready to take its place with the Macintosh and the IBM PC as a major home computing platform. MORE...
...Microsoft stint lasted 13 years, during which he started the company's multimedia division and worked on applications for the Macintosh before Apple's famous computer had even been introduced...