During their heyday from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, most BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the system operator ( or " SysOp "), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access, or were operated by a business as a means of supporting their customers.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

In the mid-1990s they were awarded some DARPA funding to develop a modern user interface to Augment, called Visual AugTerm ( VAT ), while participating in a larger program addressing the IT requirements of the Joint Task Force.

She uses examples, dating back to the text-based MUDs of the mid-1990s, showing college students who simultaneously live different lives through characters in separate MUDs, up to three at a time, all while doing schoolwork.

These actions by the TAF had resulted by the mid-1990s in more than 3, 000 Kurdish villages being deserted while according to official figures 378, 335 Kurdish people had been displaced and rendered homeless.

Experts differ on the start date of Generation Y. William Strauss and Neil Howe use the start year as 1982, and end years around the turn of the millennium, while others use start years that are earlier or later than 1982, and end years in the mid-1990s.

By the mid-1990s Image series such as Spawn and The Savage Dragon had proven themselves as lasting successes ( the former frequently topping the sales charts for months in which new issues came out ), while new series such as Wildstorm's Gen¹³, and Top Cow's Witchblade and The Darkness were also successful.

Indicated by the presence of beepers and larger cell phones, the series is set in the mid-1990s, meaning Miriam had her first child, Olga, in the mid-to late 1970s while being in her mid-20s.

Once considered one of the best attacking midfielders in the world, he became the first Finnish footballing superstar while playing for Ajax in the mid-1990s, and won the 1995 Champions League with them.

The existence of Project A119 remained largely secret until the mid-1990s, when writer Keay Davidson discovered the story while researching the life of Carl Sagan for a biography.

By the mid-1990s, during the dot-com boom years, annual donations exceeded $ 1 million, while library circulation passed 5 million items annually.

Bonner soon took over as Jornal Hoje principal anchor ( replacing Cordeiro ) and joined Jornal Nacional as one of the substitute presenters while Fatima stayed with Fantastico until the mid-1990s.

During the mid-1990s, businesses began to flourish once again in North Jersey, while cell phones and internet dial-up connections proliferated.

Phil Elvrum became involved in the Washington music scene while working at a record store in his home town of Anacortes in the mid-1990s.

They were formed in the mid-1990s by Chinese American brothers Chris Lee and Benji Lee from Anchorage, Alaska while students at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In the early and mid-1990s, domestic traffic practically ceased, while foreign traffic reduced significantly.

Until around 1994 – 1995 their logos were opaque white and black, presumably due to being inserted into the analog CVBS signal just before being broadcast instead of an analog YUV, RGB or digital SDI signal, while in the mid-1990s they upgraded to colorized but still opaque logos.

Much of this work, including the introduction in 1962 of a polyvalent antivenom against all of the major terrestrial Australian snakes, occurred under the direction of Saul Wiener, while from 1966 until the mid-1990s, venom research was coordinated by the eccentric but dedicated Struan Sutherland.

1998 was a transitional year for music, when the hyped up sound of pure pop from the mid-1990s began to fade and popular artists began to experiment with different styles and new artists were brought onto the scene, while previous popular artists began to fade out.

In the mid-1990s he was Michael Schumacher's race engineer while also assuming the role of Head of Research and Development.

A second phase was added to the complex in the 1980s, while the mid-1990s saw a decline in business, mitigated by the opening of nearby MacArthur Center.

In the mid-1990s, while on sabbatical from his law practice, Van Orden worked at Austin-based NuStats where he helped find solutions to transportation issues in Portland, Oregon while also helping his underpaid co-workers with various legal problems.

The genre served as a middle point between two other hip hop / R & B blends, new jack swing and neo soul, and while it was most popular during the mid-1990s with the " Queen of Hip Hop Soul " Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, and Aaliyah, it still finds popularity with newcomers such as Ashanti, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Keyshia Cole and Amerie.

With two of his singles Spraakwater and Kaal of Kammen being major hits in the mid-1990s, Extince was the first Dutch rapper making the MegaCharts.

By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

A Canadian Medical Association Journal paper states that " The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s.

Mythos was a collectible card game ( CCG ) based on the Cthulhu Mythos that Chaosium produced and marketed during the mid-1990s.

Russell T Davies was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid-1990s, also writing the script for the direct-to-video special " Viva Las Vegas!

Following a long legal battle, it was not until the mid-1990s that Chelsea's future at the stadium was secured and renovation work resumed.

Among the first desktop LCD computer monitors was the Eizo L66 in the mid-1990s, the Apple Studio Display in 1998, and the Apple Cinema Display in 1999.

With one third of the game ( 9 levels ) distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture ; as a sign of its effect on the industry, games from the mid-1990s boom of first-person shooters are often known simply as " Doom clones ".

The series started to lose mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the original.

However, the timing of the availability of DECT, in the mid-1990s, was too early to find wide application for wireless data outside niche industrial applications.

The seminal moment for the growth of fantasy sports was the rise of the Internet in the mid-1990s.

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

It was showcased alongside House music in various Toronto nightclubs, but by the mid-1990s was replaced almost entirely by House music.

The Moriarty Tribunal has sat since 1997 and has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by Michael Lowry when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in the Rainbow Coalition of the mid-1990s.

The divorce became final in December 17, 2001. Throughout the mid-1990s, many tabloids reported that he was having an affair with longtime friend and collaborator Trisha Yearwood.

After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.

In the mid-1990s this was revived to some extent with the emergence of the Britpop era.

From the beginning of " The Troubles " in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s until the mid-1990s, London was subjected to repeated terrorist attacks by the Provisional IRA.

The IBM 3270 display terminal subsystem was designed and developed by IBM's Kingston, NY, laboratory ( which later closed during IBM's difficult time in the mid-1990s ).

By the mid-1990s, an estimated 60 % of the republic's pastureland was in various stages of desertification.