Modern Marvels: 90s Tech
Premieres: TONIGHT!
Thursday, February 7th @ 8pm ET/PT on The History Channel (please check local listings)
90s Tech: It was the dot com decade that opened up the information superhighway. “Modern Marvels: 90s Tech” takes you way back to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of today’s trendy technologies. From DVDs to TIVO to GPS, see how the digital gadgets we can’t live without all started in the 90s. Hear the Amazon story from its very own founder, Jeff Bezos, and see how millions of cyber goods are packaged and shipped at an 800,000 square-foot Amazon distribution center. At Google, learn the science of the world’s most popular search engine. And was Furby really a threat to national security? We go beyond its furry exterior to show you the inner-workings of the intriguing pet. Heavyweight Boxing Champion George Foreman, will show us how to “knock out the fat” with one of the best-selling appliances of the decade. And its creators will demo some of the original first-person shooter games: Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
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