What kind of software would you bring to the world?
PS: Since you are in a parallel universe, there are no time paradoxes. None of your actions will affect our current timeline.
The 486 was announced at Spring Comdex in April 1989. At the announcement, Intel stated that samples would be available in the third quarter of 1989 and production quantities would ship in the fourth quarter of 1989. The first 486-based PCs were announced in late 1989, but some advised that people wait until 1990 to purchase an 486 PC because there were early reports of bugs and software incompatibilities.
In March 1989, Tim laid out his vision for what would become the Web in a document called “Information Management: A Proposal”. Believe it or not, Tim’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. In fact, his boss at the time, Mike Sendall, noted the words “Vague but exciting” on the cover. The Web was never an official CERN project, but Mike managed to give Tim time to work on it in September 1990. He began work using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products.
Don't forget good old AssemblyRemember that we'd be working with QBasic, C++ and Pascal on i386 PC's.
Visual Basic wouldn't be out until 1991 and the World Wide Web was still in the laboratory.
but would you guys be able to create Google, Bet'n'Click and Facebook with 1989 hardware?
then start enhancing Edlin to look make it like Word Perfect.
I'd start a new company, write a new kind of search engine, and name it Google.
-- Jem
I confirm. In the 80's, a lot of developers were able to code in low-level languages. If you open the famous books of this era (I don't know their title in other languages), they were full of ASM routines (e.g. to speed up manipulations of strings). At school, in the middle of the 80's, I learnt to code in ASM and build a programmable automaton although I didn't study computer science.Absolutely. Back then I was very familiar with the Motorola 68030 and other 68000 series processors. I was working mainly in C and ASM then.
We usually forget that a lot of people were already connected together before Internet becomes popular. We were using BBS (bulletin board systems) and Usenet.The problem with this timeline is that the internet was unknown as far as the world wide web goes.
We usually forget that a lot of people were already connected together before Internet becomes popular. We were using BBS (bulletin board systems) and Usenet.
We usually forget that a lot of people were already connected together before Internet becomes popular. We were using BBS (bulletin board systems) and Usenet.
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