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Posted on May 19, 1998March 2, 2021 by Tom Anthony

PortFolio Magazine Technology ColumnWritten by Tom AnthonyMay 19, 1998 Pick up most any newspaper and odds are there is a story somewhere about doing business on the Internet. You would think that just about everybody is making money hand over fist on this global computer network ‑ but that's...

Tech 47

Posted on May 11, 1998January 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech May 11, 1998 Who’s got a handle on the difference between Cellular and Digital phone service? If you go to a technician, you may learn all about the fascinating world of analog. That’s the traditional method of modulating radio signals so that they can carry information. Yawn. Analog...

Tech 46

Posted on April 13, 1998January 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech 9814April 13, 1998 After turning on the coffee pot and pouring a bowl of fruit and fiber in the morning, many of us click on the TV set and watch the local news. There it is all laid out for us, weather - traffic - and headlines. All made possible by some pretty neat technology. "For me it...

Tech 44

Posted on March 30, 1998January 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech #9812March 30, 1998 Why do you think it is that we love to hate Microsoft? Personally I believe it’s because we’re all - myself included - really jealous of Bill Gates in his role as the richest guy in the known universe. Some may argue that Windows ’95 doesn’t work up to...

Tech 43

Posted on March 20, 1998March 15, 2021 by Tom Anthony

March 20, 1998 As one to advise regular backups for every computer I wanted a high-tech tool to do the same for myself. But what? My first trip to the computer hardware store had me grunting like some Tim Allen comedy routine. 230 megabyte cartridge - eew! Seven gigabyte external tape drive -...

Tech 45

Posted on March 16, 1998January 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech 9813April 6, 1998 My Fiancé’s daughter Traci will be going off to Law school this Fall and in preparation is shopping for a notebook sized laptop computer. They have a technical name by the way, Notebook. My guess is that since she still hasn’t finished her education, Traci has some...

Tech 42

Posted on March 9, 1998January 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech 9810March 9, 1998 Bob Chauncey runs a small business across the street from the 700 club in Virginia Beach. Maybe all that technology from across the street zapped him, but Chauncey told me an interesting story the other day about the internet. “It’s still with the web master, but...

Tech 41

Posted on March 2, 1998March 3, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech 9809March 2, 1998 With a lot of fanfare and one gracefully aging old actor the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton is focusing on the nether regions with it’s newest exhibit, Destination Space. The actor, Jimmy Doohan, played Scotty on the original Star Trek TV series, and was in...

It all started here.

Posted on February 28, 1998January 24, 2022 by Tom Anthony

11/30/2021According to public internet domain records I have owned tomanthony dot com since March 3, 1998. For the preceding year or so I had been updating and building commercial websites wherever I could, mostly for free, with the rationalization of doing the work to learn the trade. By the...

Tech 40

Posted on February 23, 1998February 19, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Tech 9808February 23, 1998 In the first Tech column published last spring, I had just moved into the Phat Flat, my top floor apartment overlooking Ghent. The theme of that article was that how when we move, the modem is the copper and glass thread that keeps us rooted in a common frame of...