1998 – 2001murdered
Dreamcast
“First console online, first console off our shelves too soon.”
“Ten million icons clicked. Rest well, old friend.”
Windows 3.0 arrived in May 1990 and finally made Microsoft's graphical shell worth caring about. It swapped the file-name lists of its predecessors for clickable icons, added multitasking, customizability, and the memory management that had plagued earlier versions. It was the first Windows to succeed both critically and commercially, with 10 million sales, and its GUI was seen as a genuine challenger to the Macintos
After more than a decade of service, support ended on December 31, 2001 — less a death than a well-earned retirement. Its Multimedia Extensions work on sound and CD-ROMs was unified into Windows 3.1, carrying its legacy forward. Not everyone sang at the send-off: third-party developers criticized Microsoft for bundling its own software with the operating environment.
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“First console online, first console off our shelves too soon.”
“Sweeter, smarter on paper, and never once loved back”
“Warm cookies, warm bikes, cold math — gone in under an hour, just like the deliveries.”