Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just look at the year the century was born. The Paris Exposition in 1900 (50 million visitors, more than the entire population of France) featured wireless telegraphs, X rays and tape recorders. "It is a new century, and what we call electricity is its God," wrote the romantic historian Henry Adams from Paris...
...PALM VII So you want wireless Web access in your pocket? Which gadget are you going to go for--a cell phone with its fiddly little buttons, or a pda (personal digital assistant) with a neat little stylus and large screen? The best answer this year was the Palm VII, which gives you a smorgasbord of e-mail, news, sports and stock tickers, all for $9.99 a month. By the way, it's also an organizer...
...idea was out. The machine turned out to be more feminine than I expected. It's a zippy little laptop, but the rubberized blueberry-and-white clamshell design looks like something Barbie would use. I'm still willing to consider that experiment as soon as Apple makes a wireless machine that looks good next to a pint of Guinness...
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth later, I called Apple's tech support. Its first suggestion was to hook up my iBook to the base station with an Ethernet cable--not included--and do a "hardware reset." Did someone say wireless? Eventually, an Apple product manager discovered the fault. Turns out AirPort needs the arcane "name server address" from my Internet service provider, something it had not asked for during the plug-and-play software setup...
...manager said this was a relatively rare "known issue"--code phrase for bug--that Apple will address in AirPort 2.0. I was wireless at last, but it had cost me a day's worth of headaches. This sort of thing happens with Windows all the time, of course. It only hurts with the ones you love...