Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machines involved here are going to continue to improve," Gates said. "The PC of the future will essentially be on all the time...
Gates Says Internet, PC Will Dominate Communications
That is something everybody is thinking about these days, from the PC makers to the folks championing the idea of a $500 "network computer." But when it comes to rapid deployment of high-powered computer technology, nobody has a better track record than the video-game companies. Nintendo won't say anything about its Internet plans right now except to wink and say, as Lincoln does, that it "will be making announcements in the near future." But it's not hard to imagine tens of millions of Americans a few years from now surfing the World Wide Web through their...
...computer. "It" is the idea underlying Diba, the Valley start-up Dibachi launched last winter after quitting his job at Oracle. And the idea is IDEA, the Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, a line of cheap devices that do just one thing instead of the limitless tasks expected of a PC. For example, the Diba Kitchen Idea, above, holds thousands of recipes on a CD-ROM. Diba wants to build application-specific computers to populate the whole house and hopes to deliver its first product by Christmas. Though Larry may not get it, Dibachi thinks millions of Americans will...
...billion universe of computer games, these are days of feverish anticipation. The twitchy teenagers and addicted adults who spend hours at a time blasting away the phosphorous phantoms on their PC screens know that Quake is coming. It's more like a second coming: Quake's forebear, the virtual reality, blast-'em-up sensation called Doom, is probably the most popular PC game ever created. Countless fans are currently searching 75 Websites looking for signs of Quake as if it were a visiting comet...