Music
January 19 - 1999 Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) went on trial in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that he dragged a student barber down a flight of stairs.
Technology
On this day in 1983, Apple chairman Steve Jobs and president John Sculley announced the Apple Lisa, slated for release in the spring of 1983. The Apple Lisa was a major milestone in user-friendly computing. In 1979, a team of Apple developers including Jobs visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where computer scientists showed them the Alto computer, a fully networked, user-friendly system boasting a graphic interface and a mouse. Stunned by the ease of use and intuitive nature of the Alto computer, Apple immediately launched its own efforts to create a graphical user interface. Two years and $50 million later, the Apple Lisa was introduced. Unfortunately, Lisa's $12,000 price tag placed it out of the consumer market. Lisa's most successful graphical features were handed down to a new Apple computer in 1984, nicknamed "Lisa's Little Brother"--the Macintosh. The Mac, though not immediately successful, eventually changed user expectations about computing, prompting Microsoft to develop its own graphic user interface, Windows.
January 19 - 1999 Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) went on trial in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that he dragged a student barber down a flight of stairs.
Technology
On this day in 1983, Apple chairman Steve Jobs and president John Sculley announced the Apple Lisa, slated for release in the spring of 1983. The Apple Lisa was a major milestone in user-friendly computing. In 1979, a team of Apple developers including Jobs visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where computer scientists showed them the Alto computer, a fully networked, user-friendly system boasting a graphic interface and a mouse. Stunned by the ease of use and intuitive nature of the Alto computer, Apple immediately launched its own efforts to create a graphical user interface. Two years and $50 million later, the Apple Lisa was introduced. Unfortunately, Lisa's $12,000 price tag placed it out of the consumer market. Lisa's most successful graphical features were handed down to a new Apple computer in 1984, nicknamed "Lisa's Little Brother"--the Macintosh. The Mac, though not immediately successful, eventually changed user expectations about computing, prompting Microsoft to develop its own graphic user interface, Windows.