“(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” by Bryan Adams was the best selling single.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg was seven years old. Justin Bieber’s mother was just beginning high school.
Remember waking up in 1991? You probably had a clock radio with a red LED display. Maybe it was beside an answering machine, you know, any actual physical answering machine with a cassette inside. You likely didn’t have the internet, but your 286 Personal Computer had a color screen and a 20 megabyte hard-drive. What would you do with all that space?
Take a look at this Radio Shack Flyer from 1991. Look closely; every single item for sale can now be done with your smartphone…
Today, of course, your smartphone is likely beside your bed. Maybe you set it to airplane mode before you fall asleep so if someone calls it will go straight to voicemail. Perhaps when you wake up you check the internet on your iPhone 5, which has more than a 1000 MB of RAM.
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Cantech Letter founder and editor Nick Waddell has lived in five Canadian provinces and is proud of his country's often overlooked contributions to the world of science and technology. Waddell takes a regular shift on the Canadian media circuit, making appearances on CTV, CBC and BNN, and contributing to publications such as Canadian Business and Business Insider.
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