Saturday, 12 May 2018

This week in tech, 20 years ago

<em>Newsweek’s</em> iMac feature, May 1998

As a person who covers day-to-day technology news, I often wonder how my writing might come off to someone in the future — and whether anyone will even be reading it. I can’t answer those questions, but I can do the next best thing: look back at what other people were writing 20 years ago.

Here are five stories — big and small — that science and tech enthusiasts might have checked out during the week before May 12th, 1998.

Say hello to iMac

If you follow tech news, you might already know that Apple’s colorful original iMac turned 20 years old last weekend. You can find some modern perspectives on it in a Twitter moment, an Engadget retrospective, and a story from MacWorld about its original 1998 iMac feature.

Back in May of 1998, you’d...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/12/17328162/this-week-in-tech-20-years-ago-may-1998

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/05/this-week-in-tech-20-years-ago.html

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