Computers may be ubiquitous now but in 1990 they were just beginning to enter the mainstream. And like any revolutionary technology, the desktop computer was viewed with more than a little skepticism ...

With Maximum PC and MacLife’s abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run. I spent most of that time at PC ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III, and it ...

Back in September 2014, Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his "daily driver" for ...

One of the things that will never fail to make me happy: seeing people stuck in time explain what modern day technology is. Kim Komando hosted an educational series about computer and explains the ...

In the mid-1990s, as computers became more powerful, software demanded more memory — but RAM was expensive and intimidating to upgrade. Most users weren’t comfortable opening their computers, let ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — “God” was protecting part of the Purdue computer system from hackers in the early 1990s. Computer users without authorization that tapped into “God” – a booby-trapped computer ...

KHQ.COM - In 1990 KHQ-TV followed up on a new computer virus popping up in Spokane with a message attached saying "Your PC is now stoned." According to a few websites it was around that time antivirus ...