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The Next Generation of Next Generation Game Consoles
The
current generation of game console, now more than four since
introduction is now at about the half way point it their life
cycles. While there are years of life ahead for the
Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Xbox 360, there is many who are
looking a head of what the next generation of game systems will have to
offer. Despite what Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft say
officially, the next game systems are being developed now.
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MZ-NF610 MiniDisc Player
In my
search for a portable music player with the features that I wanted, I
was coming up short of getting what I wanted so I had to take a sort of
leap backwards. I went onto e-bay and got a portable minidisk
player/recorder. I wanted an AM/FM radio so that I could listen to my
favorite news/talk station while on the bus ride to work and during
lunch break I could listen to my tunes from my computer. I ended up
getting a Sony Net MD Walkman MZ-NF 610. Net MD is Sony’s method
of taking audio files from computers and loading them onto MiniDiscs.
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 Marc
Andreessen
Inventor of Of the Modern Web Browser
Way back in 1992 when
anybody but hard core geeks knew what going even meant, Marc Andreessen
started to to the Internet what Graphical User Interface did for
computer operating systems. Up to that point information on the
Internet was shrouded in arcane Unix commands and everything was
text. Andreessen was developing Mosaic at the Nation Center for
Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. The
World Wide Web was just three years old at the time. There were
pages that were hyperlinked together but it was just text. There
wasn't even anything even called a web browser, in order to go to a web
page it required telnetting into web server. Even following links
wasn't a matter of pointing and clicking. To go to another page
the number of the hyperlink had to be keyed into the computer and
pressing the enter key.
In early 1994,
Andreessen's Mosaic changed all that. Links became clickable and
pictures became a permanent fixtures on web pages. By making the
web easy to use Mosaic helped fuel the Internet revolution of the mid
1990's. By late 1994 Andreessen was recruited by financier Jim
Clark to turn Mosaic into a new company. In 1995 the newly formed
Netscape Communications released the Navigator browser which was based
on Mosaic. Meanwhile Microsoft hired many of Andreessen's cohorts
from NCSA to develop Internet Explorer. By late 1996 Internet
Explorer had finally become a viable competitor to Netscape
Navigator. The Browser Wars would last another couple of years
with Internet Explorer winning due mostly to being bundled with Windows
98. Internet Explorer would then have a market share of over 95
percent until Mozilla Firefox was based on programming code from
Netscape would reclaim 15 percent market share from Internet Explorer.
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