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 ...

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.

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 ...