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Join Our 30-Year Anniversary Fundraiser Our Firm Family Adds a Cute New Member Your New Portal Is Here
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Beating Summer Vacation Boredom
Mouthwatering Southern BBQ
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Time Travel Back to ’92
TIME WARP TO ’92
fabulous innovations and inventions we have made since ‘92.
Imagine for a moment that it is 1992 again. Brian Eagle is on the brink of opening the Eagle & Fein Indianapolis office, and beyond his door is an entirely different world.
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Major League Soccer. Major League Soccer didn’t exist and now it has grown to 28 teams and on average 20,000 fans attend per game. The International Space Station. Yes, Eagle & Fein predates the International Space Station! It took flight in 1998 and was first populated in 2000. Google. The search engine launched in 1997 and quickly became a verb. Smartphones. IBM’s Simon model led the way in 1994. It was the first device with apps and a touch screen … but flip phones and bricks still dominated until the iPhone was released in 2007. Netflix and YouTube. In 1992 there were no DVDs, let alone streaming! Netflix launched in 1997 to send movies by the United States Post Office, and YouTube arrived in 2005. Self-driving cars. Improvements in GPS technology and artificial intelligence (AI) made self-driving cars possible in 2012. We are still waiting to see how they change the world.
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The internet had barely been invented. Public internet appeared in 1991, and the first mainstream web browser — Mosaic — was not available until 1993! There was no social media. The first-ever social media site was Six Degrees, which launched in 1997. CBS News reports it had millions of users and familiar features like profiles, friend lists, and school affiliations. Ryze (2001), Friendster (2002), and LinkedIn (2003) came along next. Out of those pioneers, only LinkedIn is still popular. It was the year of the first text message, and the first email. Did you know the first- ever text message said, “Merry Christmas!”? It was sent in December of 1992 from “a developer to the company director at Vodafone’s office Christmas party,” according to Versus. The Nokia 1011 was the exciting new phone at the time.
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LOOK HOW FAR WE HAVE COME!
We look forward to what the next 30 years will bring!
Since then, our technology and society have come a long way! Here are just a few of the
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