Music Genres in the 1990s
They were playing 1980s “hair metal” at the coffee shop recently: bands like Guns ‘n Roses and Mötley Crüe. Then all of a sudden, I heard the opening riffs of Nirvana’s “About a Girl”....
Tagged: 1990s
The Strange Tale of My Frankenstein 386
My family got our first computer back in 1990. It was a Tandy 1000HX that was already out of date when we got it. It worked well for what I wanted to do with...
A Lovable Lemon: My Performa 6200
It was the spring of 1995. I was 14 years old and a full-fledged computer geek. The family computer was in my bedroom, and while I had to share it with my sister, I...
The Rise of Microsoft Windows NT
Early versions of Microsoft Windows were pretty primitive by modern standards. Microsoft intended for Windows to be an interim solution. It started out as a graphical interface that ran atop MS-DOS, making DOS easier...
The Age of Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes)
The Internet has existed since 1969, but it was only in the mid-to-late-1990s that it became commonplace in the home. Before that, computer users communicated via more low-tech methods. Many people of the era...
