Internet Explorer joins 10 past tech crazes - USA TODAY
Netscape was the first commercial Web browser. In the 1990s Microsoft's Internet Explorer caught up to Netscape as the two duked it out over what browser would rule the World Wide Web. The Web browser ushered in a new era of accessible e-mail and browsing in the mid-1990s that allowed users to search and e-mail, a lot like Google today. " The Internet service, America Online or AOL, was so prominent in the 1990s that an entire Meg Ryan movie was based off of the slogan people heard when they got an e-mail through AOL. The Internet provider sent millions of CD-ROMS to households across the country offering 1,000 free hours of Internet service and hoping people would buy in to the provider. In the '90s the company spent over $300 million on the disks, Jan Brandt, AOL's former chief marketing officer told TechCrunch. AOL still relies on 2. 3 million dial-up subscription customers, the Washington Post reported in August. The phone even had its own form of text messaging called BBM or BlackBerry Messenger that allowed groups of "Crackberry" users to talk. RIM, the company that owns Blackberry, acknowledged that people have had a hard time overcoming the Blackberry as a "work phone," the Washington Post reported in 2011. ?. Blackberry is still trying to get back to the glory days. Source: www.usatoday.com
