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Tag results: Multimedia

Bog-Standard Multimedia

Why the PC industry standardized on multimedia in the early ’90s, and why that standardization effort didn’t really last.

Jul 07, 2021

Otis Nixon, the CD-i, and Me

An improbably true story of a baseball star at his career peak pitching a 10-year-old on the unspeakably bad Philips CD-i at an Atlanta mall in 1992.

Oct 09, 2018

A Magazine You Can't Bend

For a brief time in the '90s, publishers thought that CD-ROM magazines were the future. But, as it turned out, readers were more interested in the internet.

Feb 23, 2016

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