Both brilliant and both changed the world we live in. Frenemies Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were contemporaries founding Microsoft and Apple around the same time and have provided the world with many of the products and software we use every day.
If you can still hear the mechanical squawk of a 56k modem connecting, congratulations: you survived the 90s internet. Welcome to the weird and wonderful pre-social media web.
The 80s and 90s weren’t just decades. They were cultural powerhouses that transformed entertainment, fashion, and how we connected with the world.
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The Y2K bug was a cultural phenomenon. It was a late-90s cocktail of millennial anxiety, corporate profiteering, and 24-hour news hysteria.