Updated On: 26 June, 2009 11:43 AM IST | | Balaji Narasimhan
What was technology like when MiD DAY was launched in 1979? iT ADDA goes back in time to tell you how things were in the good old days
What was technology like when MiD DAY was launched in 1979? iT ADDA goes back in time to tell you how things were in the good old days
In 1979, Wikipedia says that Michael Jackson released his first breakthrough album, Off The Wall, which sold 7 million copies in the US alone. While you may still enjoy Jackson and MiD DAY today, this is not bound to be true about technology that existed in those days. If we were to give you such technology, you would find it to be clunky, irritating and not at all user friendly.
But still, people used them, and so it is worth checking out what these things were. With this aim, we checked out http://www.computerhistory.org/, which features excellent information on the history of computing. Here's a sample of what we found.
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