Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What they found was the Viacom New Media release, Club Dead. It's a CD-ROM adventure game for IBM PC and compatibles, and, according to its publishers, it's the first CD-ROM that "truly delivers on the sensibility...
...their fingers that the pattern will hold. Whatever the ministries and their industry clients decide, there is a deepening popular enthusiasm for one part of the multimedia world: cyberspace. Though the graphics are a bit primitve, and there are almost no magazines available online, subscribers to NIFTY-Serve and PC Van, the two largest online services, now total 1.7 million, up 42% from a year earlier. Online forums, where groups of people can exchange ideas and comments, are especially popular. Says Tomoo Okada, NIFTY's president: ``Many Japanese are shy in face-to-face conversation. But they seem to derive...
...began innocently enough: I was stuck at home, recovering from back surgery, and needed some diversion. Bored with channel surfing and unable yet to return to running, I borrowed a PC from the office, hooked up a modem and began to check out the local computer bulletin board (BBS) scene...
...Occasionally one of the services would cut me off for nonpayment -- because I wasn't off-line enough to open the bills. My work and financial records moved to a corner of the living room as I reassigned home-office space; after all, a brand-new 386- model PC, color monitor, fast dot-matrix printer and 2400 bps modem deserved their own desk and room. Visits to local computer supermarkets became more frequent than trips to neighborhood bookstores. Relatives and friends complained about busy signals and demanded that I get home voice-mail service...
...awaited telescreen for seeing and being seen by those you talk with on the telephone. Carl Ledbetter, president of AT&T's Consumer Products division, predicts that ``in a decade, every phone will have a screen on it.'' At Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, where the PC, on-screen icons and the laser printer originated, Mark Weiser, manager of the computer science laboratory, envisions a world in which flat-panel screens bearing a multitude of images will be household regulars. They will range from tiny ones, costing perhaps $5 each and plastered everywhere, to wall-size ones...