Ila, I don’t know when “Google” first became popular? I seem to remember first using it in late ’99 or early ’00. It was the “cool,” “new,” thing and over the last 20 years, has grown so much more as a company. Much of what I teach it is almost impossible to not be involved with “Google” in some way. I use their analytics and many of my students prefer to use “Google Docs” rather than Microsoft. Our major applications however are still Excel and Access, Oracle, also Power BI, and Tableau. We also use SAS, SPSS, R, and teach Python.
According to “Wired,” The Mosaic browser was released in April 1993. I remember my first time using it but I don’t remember the exact date. The whole idea of “hypertext” and “world wide web” started in the late 80’s anyway (Tim Berners-Lee) so I had used software that “linked” to other resources before.
My parents had “CompuServe” for a long time and I still remember ordering clothes for school from Sears or J.C. Penney’s using their credit card. Of course our computer crashed right after I placed the order (it was a “text” interface) and worrying that I would get in trouble.
But enough…
Here’s a few “screenshots” that are sure to bring back memories. And for those who weren’t born yet… yes, this really was what the Internet was like back then and was considered “awesome.”
