Sunday 19 October 2014

A Very Long Hiatus

So it has been a very long hiatus. But I am hoping that this time it will be shorter!

So what has happened over the last 3 years since i posted...

Technology has changed...very fast!

Lets take a walk through time...

1993 = My first PC IBM Ambra Intel 486 25Mhz SX 4MB RAM (Am I crazy???)
1996 = Hyundai Intel Pentium 100Mhz 32MB RAM (Hyundai made PCs???)
2004 = HP Pavilion Laptop 3.2GHz Single Core (Cutting edge for that time)

So fast forward to the GHz computing now and we now have the same if not better power on our Mobile Phones.

Hard to imagine is it not???

So how have things changed now... When I started using the internet it was on Compuserve. Or through the Compuserve Information Manager (CIM or WinCIM) with it's bundled NCSA Mosaic Browser. Netscape was something you paid for.

Along came Internet Explorer by MS and destroyed Netscape (Well it's then parent company did but that is a different story),

In this time we have Google, Facebook, Youtube.. Out of all the initial pioneers of the internet and there are many names that have disappeared... (Geocities, altavista) Only Amazon seems to remain and grow, yes there is Yahoo which is finding itself in some difficult times...

Hard to imagine how much things have changed!!