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.

MS-DOS continued to be the most popular operating system for BBS use up until the mid-1990s, and in the early years most multi-node BBSes were running under a DOS based multitasker such as DESQview or consisted of multiple computers connected via a LAN.

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.

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.

Originally, the Alpha processors were designated the DECchip 21x64 series, with " DECchip " replaced in the mid-1990s with " Alpha ".

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

The first complete genome sequences for representatives from all 3 domains of life were released within a short period during the mid-1990s.

In the early to mid-1990s, Paiste offered mini hi-hats as part of its Visions series ; these were among the world's smallest hi-hats.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

They were the creation of millionaire Percy Nilsson and quickly rose to the highest rank in the early to mid-1990s and won two Swedish championships, but for a number of years have found themselves residing outside of the top flight.

In the mid-1990s, a major use of non-embedded MIPS microprocessors were graphics workstations from SGI.

The requirements of high-infrastructure design were drastically reduced during the mid-1990s with CMOS mainframe designs replacing the older bipolar technology.

Many attempts were made to improve the performance of Mach and Mach-like microkernels, but by the mid-1990s much of the early intense interest had died.

In mid-1990s native 32-bit accounting software were well developed and serving corporate markets.

The primary manufacturers of excimer laser light sources in the 1980s were Lambda Physik ( now part of Coherent, Inc .) and Lumonics, but since the mid-1990s Cymer Inc. has become the dominant supplier of excimer laser sources to the lithography equipment manufacturers.

During the late 1980s to mid-1990s, Smalltalk environments — including support, training and add-ons — were sold by two competing organizations: ParcPlace Systems and Digitalk, both California based.

Platform games originated in the early 1980s, and 3D successors were popularized in the mid-1990s.

In the mid-1990s awards were also given to supporting actors and actresses.

Both titles were relaunched as Classic 2000AD and Classic Judge Dredd in the mid-1990s but were cancelled soon after.

* In the mid-1990s a series of 2000 AD Poster Progs were published, each featuring a new strip.

In Alberta, the county used to be a type of municipal status ; but this was changed to " municipal district " under the Municipal Government Act, when the County Act was repealed in the mid-1990s, at which time they were also permitted to retain the usage of county in their official names.

By the mid-1990s, many ski hills were dominated by boarders, and their ability to do stunts in terrain parks.

In the string theory conference at University of Southern California in the mid-1990s, Witten solved an outstanding problem of how five different versions of string theory were just the same theory which are related to one another by dualities.

After the recession years, tourism picked up again in the mid-1990s, only to face another slowdown in 1999.

The small size of the Midland Park school and the lack of electives led to efforts in the mid-1990s to find another high school to serve students from the borough.

In the mid-1990s, another serious proposal was produced and this gained support resulting in the publication of a masterplan.

By the mid-1990s, more than one million passengers were flying Cyprus Airways every year ; another 4, 000 chose the charter operation Eurocypria.

His resolve was weakened twice, once when he returned briefly for AW's 25th anniversary show in 1989, and another time when he considered returning in the mid-1990s.

The northbound platform had another second exit towards the north end, but due to safety and security reasons, this was closed and covered over in the mid-1990s.

In the mid-1990s, another programming block entitled " Very, Very Nick at Nite " aired which centered around a theme each Saturday night, such as " Very Very Mary " with four classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episodes.

During the mid-1990s, a much larger addition, the size of another school, was built which included 60 classrooms, a 50 meter swimming pool, a 1, 186 seat Performing Arts Center and a field house was built.

By the mid-1990s, NBC, obviously embarrassed and angry about its poor performance in one of the country's fastest-growing markets, had finally had enough with WRDC and was looking to move its programming to another station.

The M40 was phased into service with the US Army in the mid-1990s, with another new design, the MCU-2 / P similarly replacing older masks in service with the Air Force.

In the mid-1990s, the port went through another round of modernization.

He also predicted another energy crisis to occur 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.

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

The second was the Persian Gulf War era Challenger 1, which was the British army's main battle tank ( MBT ) from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.

By the mid-1990s the economy entered an era of stagnation and low growth that that still persists.

The PC speaker was often used in very innovative ways to create the impression of polyphonic music or sound effects within computer games of its era, such as the LucasArts series of adventure games from the mid-1990s, using swift arpeggios.

London Towers, Crystal Palace and the Greater London Leopards ushered in an era of capital success in the mid-1990s and in 1999 a Conference format was introduced, which was mirrored by the NBL the following season.

LCDs of the era were still not able to cope with fast-moving images, especially at higher resolutions, and from the mid-1990s the plasma display was the only real offering in the high resolution space.

Company executives planned for the project to bring SNK into the new era of 3D gaming that had arisen during the mid-1990s, and had planned for a corresponding home system to replace the aging and expensive AES home console.

During the television coverage of the qualifying session of the 2012 German Grand Prix held on the new circuit, former F1 driver and current lead TV commentator for Sky Sports Formula One coverage Martin Brundle, stated that he, along with other drivers of his era ( mid-1980s to the mid-1990s ), didn't really enjoy racing at the old Hockenheim as the long straights often saw only seven or eight finishers from twenty six starters, with most dropping out through engine or transmission failure caused by the long periods at high speed on the forest straights.

* Second Sight ( band ), a mid-1990s era band featuring Vince Welnick and Bob Bralove

Only by the mid-1990s did Korean swordmaking come back to expert levels comparable to the Joseon era.

In the mid-1990s the station underwent extensive remodeling to make it look like the passenger stations of a bygone era.