Government Technology - October 2007 - (Page 30) WAYBACK Government Technology’s MACHINE Revisiting 20 years of Government Technology magazine. WAY BACK FACT In April 1995, a terrorist attack perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols decimated the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. The bombing claimed 168 lives. McVeigh was later executed in 2001, and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without parole. 1994 Say, for example, the railroad was introduced around the same time as the automobile. Or, what if the cassette tape came out right as the iPod hit the shelves? You’d look back at the situation, bemused, wondering why cassette-tape makers didn’t pay attention to digital music technology. Such was the case in 1994 when we and many other media outlets were all atwitter about a harebrained device that would supposedly revolutionize the way government served citizens — the kiosk. 1 In our September issue, we announced our cover story, Kiosks on the March, in a ludicrously large font. The article told of kiosks and their visionless promoters. Kiosks would make filling out government forms and applying for government benefits as simple as driving to the grocery store and waiting for a free kiosk — so much easier than going to an actual government office, right? Why kiosk advocates couldn’t see the likelihood of the increasingly popular World Wide Web doing everything a kiosk could do but from a home PC can’t be explored in this limited space. For now, just be thankful the $25,000-a-piece machines were, even then, on the march straight into obscurity. Picture the most ill-timed product launch possible: BY CHAD VANDER VEEN | TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS EDITOR By 1995, it seemed Government Technology had become profitable, judging from the beefy advertiser index and 100-plus page magazines of those days. Awash in cash, we finally transitioned from crummy newsprint to the glossy paper typical of most magazines. 2 WAY BACK FACT In August, the much-anticipated Windows 95 is released. The operating system’s launch was like no other before it, with Microsoft spending a reported $300 million on advertising — including paying millions for the rights to the Rolling Stones’ classic Start Me Up. 30
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