1 week ago

Category: Software, Microsoft, apple

Thanksgiving is a time for gathering together with familiar faces, and maybe to look back and take a mellow moment to reflect on the days gone by. So maybe it’s appropriate that this month the https://sites.google.com/site/computerhistoryvideos/home shared a very special find: a video Microsoft created back in 1994.

And then it touts the company’s still-strange-in-1994 vision of “a computer on every desk, in every home…

It’s all a forgotten glimpses of a world from long ago, and a chance to look back into the earliest days of personal computing.

But instead, this video’s announcer takes us backward in time, to a world where Microsoft Windows “was announced at the 1983 Comdex tradeshow.