https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/technology-history/Recent content in Technology History on LocodigitalHugoen-USMon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/windows-me-at-26-the-os-microsoft-wanted-to-forget/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/windows-me-at-26-the-os-microsoft-wanted-to-forget/<p>Today marks 26 years since Microsoft put something on the shelves that promised to be the future of home computing — and ended up being the company&rsquo;s biggest embarrassment to that point. On 14 September 2000, Windows Millennium Edition reached stores. Thirteen months later, Windows XP buried it so deep that most users preferred to pretend ME had never existed.</p> <h2>What was Windows ME?</h2> <p>Windows ME shipped as the successor to Windows 98 SE for the home market. The pitch was modern features: System Restore, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Player 7 and better integration with the digital cameras and USB devices that were taking off at the time.</p>https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/youtube-at-21-the-first-video-me-at-the-zoo/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/youtube-at-21-the-first-video-me-at-the-zoo/<p>Today, 23 April 2026, YouTube turns 21. Not as a registered company — that was February 2005, when the domain went live. I mean the moment the upload button was properly switched on: 23 April 2005, 8:27pm Pacific time. Jawed Karim, one of the three founders, uploaded 19 seconds of video filmed at a zoo and posted it on the internet without the faintest idea that the file would change everything.</p>