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1998 – In the 90’s, AOL and Compuserve were battling out for top dog in the ISP market. However, AOL showed a lot more game back then as Compuserve ultimately faltered when it’s main investor – H&R Block – decided to divest. The big quandary: Who was to buy Compuserve. Well, the end result was a buyout of Compuserve to AOL after Worldcom picked it up and then took what they wanted.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Sun begins shipping the SunPCi
• GI Joe action figure is first released by Hasbro
• Google Earth v5.0 and Google Ocean are released

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1995 – Compuserve blocks access to over 200 sites that have explicit content. They do it to avoid issue with the German Government. The sites will be blocked until Feb 13, 1996 when all but 5 sites are restored.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• IBM 1420 Bank Transit System is released
• Windows 7 Beta 1
• Nintendo Wii runs Linux

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1998 – during the last couple years of the 20th century, the race was on to fix an oversight in multiple computer systems. The problem was dubbed “Y2K” or the Millennium bug. Bottom line was that all computers worked on a 2 digit year system instead of 4. Because of this, once the clock rolled, computers would think it’s 1900 instead of 2000 and bigger issues would happen.

For instance, if you were born in 1968, then you would be -68 years old in a computer calculating your birth date. If you had a bill due of $1,000 since 1998, then you might find yourself with a reverse interest, in turn causing financial institutions to go into turmoil.

In 1998, President Bill Clintion made a statement that the Social Security payment system was officially Y2K compliant.

By the way: Most people resolved the problem by not programming in a 4 digit year, but by shifting the thinking of the 2 digit year. Therefore, in 2012 (which some shifted to), they will have these issues all over again.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Merry Christmas
• Nintendo Wii with Linux installed
• Compuserve blocks 200 sexually explicit sites
• Netscape announces the AOL browser will be discontinued

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1998 – In 3 years since it’s inception, eBay grew to be a powerful auction site. Therefore, eBay decided to go public. They offered 9 million shares on NASDAQ starting at $18 a share. When all is said and done, they closed the day at $47.375.

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• 30 years of Compuserve Services
• USS Enterprise launched
• Qualcom infringed on Broadcom patents
• Myst released

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I am reminded of the Billy Joel tune “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. In the song he chronicles history in about 4 minutes 40 seconds. The chorus says “We didn’t start the fire, It was always burning since the world’s been turning.

Well, we DID start the Internet, and we DID start Web 2.0 and Social Networking. Now it’s ignited and it’s time to fight it.

With new ideas coming out daily and web sites popping up left and right, it’s confusing to know what is going to be the next big thing and what’s gonna fizzle. Better yet, whats going to mess this whole thing up by taking it in a new direction.

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  Most of us know what AOL stands for. Up until a year or so ago, we all got AOL disks mailed to us. AOL was the #1 ISP in the nation for a long time. Now it’s struggling to keep up with the times. Recently they purchased Bebo, a social networking site. Is AOL going in the right direction? What should they do to become a top name again?It all started around 1981 with a revolutionary way to download games and music on the Atari 2600: for a $65 fee (Modem and setup fee) and $1 an hour usage. William (Bill) von Meister was the man that had this prolific vision. Because of his ideas, he made Isaac Azimov proclaim that this was “the beginning of the Information Age”. Bill started many companies and ideas on communications, but the one company – called Control Video Corporation – was probably the most poignant and the basis that brought AOL to life.

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