May her memory be blessed! Netscape (Photo: ShutterStock)
29.5.1992 | Apple PDA?
At the CES Electronics Show, Apple first showed the Newton - its PDA computer, and the father of the iPhone. Like every Apple product, the launch was accompanied by the promise of a revolution, but many glitches in the user experience meant that more than a year had passed since the announcement of the launch itself. Even after launch, consumers claimed that Newton was not as friendly as presented, and working with the stylus (pen) was not accurate enough. Only six years later, and after many attempts to improve it, Apple finally killed Newton.
30.5.1987 | For the first time - a CD that also contains video
The American company Philips introduced a renewed and smaller version of the laser-disc (which has existed since 1978, and was the huge size of a vinyl record). The video disc allows you to watch an entire movie, in a quality that was good then, but today is considered very poor. The invention lasted only four years and disappeared in 1991. The DVDs and Blurays that replaced it are now used mainly for game consoles. However, in the end, it is indisputable that the video content scene has been overwhelmed by the streaming companies.
31.5.2006 | Bad news for The Pirate Bay
The operators of the Swedish website, which provided links to pirated file downloads, experienced the first of many raids after three years of operation. Swedish police shut down the site's servers, but it took only three days to recover. When the site was relaunched, its traffic doubled due to the extensive media coverage it received.
1.6.1979 | Intel launches the famous
processor Intel announced the launch of the 8088 processor, the successor to the previous processor in the series (the 8086). This new 16-bit processor contained only about 29,000 transistors. Current processors include more than a billion transistors. The 8088 was intended for IBM's home computers released in the 1980s, and was based on the processors of the first common home computers. Anyone who kept a computer at home in the '90s also remembers the 386, 486 and Pentium – considered groundbreaking.
2.6.1996 | Netscape threatens Microsoft - but then disappears An article published in the Washington Post on the same day in history estimated that the startup Netscape would grow unprecedentedly fast, so much so that it would pose a threat to the sole controller of computing at the time - Bill Gates
' giant Microsoft. The experts explained the reason for this around Netscape's unique work method: to get as many products out as possible quickly (some of them still in beta) to the public, and to support plug-ins.
Microsoft didn't have to, and responded aggressively. In 1995, it released Windows 95, incorporating its browser, the infamous Windows Explorer. Netscape slowly began to lose users, changed owners, and development of its browser was halted in 2003. May her memory be blessed!
Tomer Glick is COE Lead in the tribe of digital platforms, technological, Bank Hapoalim
Tomer Glick, in collaboration with "The Technologist", Bank Hapoalim's Technology Division
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