So in the spirit of appreciating just how far we've come, let's revisit some of the computer trends from the '90s that were, in a word, awful. 1 Strangely Convoluted Screensavers.

Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level since 1980, according to data from the Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The fall correlates ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...