Terms Practically unheard of before 1995

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Terms Practically unheard of before 1995

• IPO Initial Public Offering
• OS operating system
• VC venture capital
• Hacker
• ISP Internet service provider
• URL uniform resource locator
• WWW

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More on terms (pre 1995)

• Http hypertext transfer protocol
• dot-com
• e-commerce
• PDA personal digital assistant
• flame now outdated term for berating
• AOL

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Only five years ago (1995)

• Windows 95 appeared, making IBM-based PC easier
  to use
• PC penetration jumped from 59 percent in 1995 to
  82 percent today
• 70 percent of these users have access to the
  Internet (30 percent increase since 1997)
• Netscape and little known companies such as AOL,
  Amazon, and Yahoo became the talk.

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All of a sudden in 1995

• People began talking about
• junk email
• personal home pages
• ecommerce

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In just 5 short years

• Technology has gone mainstream, changing our
  culture, our lives and our imagination
• Microsoft sold a stunning 700 million worth of
  software in the first 24 hours of the release in
  Aug 24, 1995 of its Win 95 operating system--on
  the strength of one promise--it was easy to use.
• 57.1 million PCs shipped that year

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Today

• 88 percent of home desktop computers run on the
  Windows operating system
• Netscape Communications Corp. taught millions of
  computer users to download its Navigator browser
  off the net, forever altering software
  distribution.

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Prior to Aug 9, 1995

• The net seemed to exist largely to provide local
  news anchors with sensational headlines
• Netscape was the driving force--a little startup
  company giving away a free Web browser
• Netscape stock opened at 71 per share, closed at
  52.63 with a market cap of 2 billion the first
  day of trading

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Then (1995)

• Computers with Intel 486 processors, 540 MB hard
  drives, and 8 Mb of Ram are hot!
• 28.8 modems are considered really hot!
• 24 million Americans on the net
• AOL competes with CompuServe, Prodigy, and
  countless other local ISPs to connect to the net
• Justice Department settles antitrust dispute with
  Microsoft

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Now (2000)

• Computers with Intel 1.13 GHz processors, 45 GB
  hard drive and 256 MB RAM
• Cable modems and DSL leave dial-ups in the dust
• AOL buys Time Warner after buying Compuserve and
  Netscape
• 137 million Americans surf the net
• 304 million people worldwide have access to the
  net
• The Justice Department would settle for Bill
  Gates head on a plate

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News Flash!

• Microsoft system compromised by hacker
• Microsoft stated they watched the hacker for five
  days compromise their system (what is this??)
• Judge Jackson has stated that he will remove
  himself from the Microsoft case if the appeal is
  turned back to his court

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The future

• Since 1995, Netscape has seen its market share
  dwindle from 80 percent to 14 percent as
  Microsofts Internet Explorer has taken over
• Apple is now a dinosaur, iMacs bloom
• PC revenues have dwindled
• the operating system will disappear

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Enter Larry Ellison and the NICC

• The New Internet Computer connects to the web and
  delivers email without the hassles of booting up,
  launching applications, or staring for long
  minutes at the Windows launch screen
• A simple, inexpensive device
• These new uncomplicated devices wont do windows
  (a prediction)

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For now, Size matters

• Five years ago the biggest hard drive was 1 GB of
  storage
• The newest hard drive is 80 GB
• Five years ago, 1 GB hard drive sold for 500
• Today, 80 GB sells for 349

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80 Gig, what fits on an 80 GB hard drive?

• 11.5 million copies of a standard newspaper
  article 2 pages in length.
• 123 CDs (6 days of solid listening)
• 20,000 four minute MP3 songs (55 days of solid
  listening)
• 32 low-quality home movies averaging 2.5 hours
  each
• 10 high quality DVD movies averaging 2.5 hours
  each
• 8,000 high-resolution digital photos
• a stack of documents 20 times taller than the
  Washington Monument

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What is happening

• Revenue in the 25 billion industry has been
  shrinking
• Competition has forced companies to make do with
  very low margins
• Hard drive manufacturers make products that
  people dont necessarily want or need
• Right now, the general population will never use
  more than 40 GB

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The Future

• Advances in computer speeds, fast Internet access
  and home networking will bring some relief to the
  hard drive industry
• People are going to skip over voice emails and go
  straight to video emails
• The world is going digital and relief will come
  from the burgeoning market of hard drives for
  non-PC devices,
• Web TV, Tivo, Replay TV, gaming devices, copy
  machines, automobiles, refrigerators that track
  groceries and order replacement inventory over
  the Internet

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