
COMPUTERS
In 1997, the idea that you could access email (specifically Hotmail) via a web browser was pretty revolutionary. "Even attachments show up!" exclaims the host in this charming segment of 'The Computer Chronicles.'
Our definition of portability has changed over the years, from 1975's IBM 5100 (what we used to call a "luggable" computer) all the way to today's ultrabooks, which are finally actually "notebook" sized -- and still have halfway decent battery life.
In this retro episode of 'Computer Chronicles,' the team goes in-depth on "The Internet," a trendy topic in 1995.
Apple uses secret internal code names for many of its products before they're released. Over the years, they've come up with some really weird ones—including one that led to multiple lawsuits.
As the dot-com bubble reached its peak in 2000, Internet entrepreneurs faced a problem: every word in the dictionary had been registered as a dot-com domain name. So their bold new innovation was to register domains ending in something other than dot-co