I was recently helping out Ron with his Ph.D. defense talk, and sent him slides from my talk as a reference. He said, “By the way, your last slide is amazing. best defense slide ever.” My last slide was titled, “What has happened since I entered grad school.” So are some of the notable products that were released and events that occurred what I was a graduate student:
- USB
- DVD
- Wi-Fi
- DSL
- Java 1.2 and Swing
- XML
- digital cameras gone mainstream
- cell phones gone mainstream
- the term “open source”
- e-mail worms
- spam from Nigeria
- Windows 98
- Y2K
- Napster
- Haas Pavilion
- “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire”
- Pac Bell Park
- President Clinton’s impeachment
- Osama bin who?
Shit happens. 🙂
But hey, Google predates you being in grad school.
True, but virtually no one was using Google at that time.