[mikecane]

This was before Google even existed. It really was a vastly different world when Microsoft seemed like a juggernaut getting into everything. And I think right around then they had created the precursor to what everyone now thinks of as just Google Earth. MS had something like it first -- I forget its name, though.

[code_duck]

Sure, I remember that too. I guess MS did seemed to headed in a stellar direction circa 1996 or 97. To me, they lost their shine as the internet picked up steam... I'd say 92-96 was the end of the golden age of the desktop computer as envisioned in the 80s. Just three years later, everything was dramatically different in a way only the savviest people would have expected in 1990.