Circa 1996.

                1996 would not see the exponential speed of 90's tech slow down. If anything it somehow again took tremendous leaps. This is the year that many of the real time rendering breakthroughs and computing level so f interactivity would make possible the modern designs that we play today. The early 90's certainly where the start of it all but the canvas was narrow and limited. 1996 would see that canvas suddenly become wide and big, clear and orders of magnitude beyond what could have been imagined before.
                 Home computing was changing drastically in its reach. PDAs, computer powered phones, early LCDs all changed how easily it was to have compute and how portable it was. This market expansion of high end tech on every level to everyone came out in all the tech industry branches. Video games would see 3D gaming come into the forefront with companies like Nintendo and Sony having 3D capable boxes. Suddenly millions of gamers would have 3D gaming capable devices. PC would see the full extent of the philosophy. With early predecessors to graphics processing units like the Voodoo 1. Which of was a fantastic 3d accelerator for the year but lacked 2D functionality so users could often have two video related expansion cards in a single system. APIs like DirectX6 would help. Intel would continue to make tremendous p

rogress in CPUs and so would a new competitor AMD. Its impossible to understate the jump in hardware and software seen in 1996. I don't think many of us in the modern day remember or can realize how much happened. It'll take ten years to see the jump 1996 did in 12 months.
                                    1996 is fun where as the earlier years in this blog covered some of my earliest and youngest memories, 1996 has clear memories and nostalgia. Very much a child and not even a video gamer yet. I remember my parents and other adults talking about Dolly the Sheep for instance. I remember one of my first car rides home from school asking my mother who the President was and her saying Bill Clinton. It would only be a few more years until I got my first computer and all this would really start. Enough about my 28 year old self and time to revist some mile markers 1996 would have.
-MSNBC was launched
-Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News.
-The cost of a 30-second Super Bowl ad was $1,085,000
-Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. voted to end their ban of hard liquor ads on television and radio
- Soda (Coca-Cola): 99 cents for six 12-ounce cans
-On July 7, Nelson Mandela stepped down as President of South Africa
-General Motors was America’s biggest company, followed by Ford Motor and Exxon Mobil.