Probably whenever it was that new tech started tracking users more and more and sending the data back to parent corp in order to deliver more and more targeted ads, even in tech that traditionally never had ads or even a computer at all, and all of this without adding any actual new features or benefits to the purchaser (and in some cases even degrading the user experience).

You are in a swampy sea of ATMs and fast food restaurants, all alike.
There is a bottle of water here.

Acquisitions always spread the blandness. Seems like companies rarely understand why a company they acquired was successful or of interest to them in the first place and make too many changes to cut costs and reduce overlap in roles that it's difficult if not impossible for things to remain the same.

Oh dear lord. What's with this obsession with thinner and thinner? Guessing I'll just end up with a thicker case to protect it so no net gain. If it gets too thin it will be a pain to pick up when laying flat on a table (at least for my older not particularly dexterous hands). Really, the iPhone is pretty much complete - there's not much more to do except incremental upgrades to the camera or microphones, etc. A standardized charging connector would be nice. But except for some minor quirks like that the form factor is basically fine now, of all the tweaks that could be made I don't see thinner as one of the ones that improves anything that still needs to be improved.

How good is this so-called AI if they still need more training data? If the thing worked I would think at some point you have enough that it's a good enough representation for the process to provide reasonable output, though I guess some really niche or difficult topics may be lacking. Seems like they're just adding storage, memory, and processing requirements with increasingly diminishing returns unless they improve the algorithm behind it. I'm no AI expert so maybe someone can chime in on why this is wrong.

I feel like at least back then there was an excuse, sort of; these were smaller companies that likely had less resources for the translation process along with few to none of the tools to assist that are available today. Google is one of the largest companies on the planet with no shortage of resources. While those older games should have done a better job, I can kind of understand why it was often rushed and of poor quality, but with Google? There really should be no excuse, certainly not after an error has been in place for a while it should have been caught and fixed.

Or the former Loews Theaters chain when asking for butter on your popcorn it's really butter flavored topping; I suspect management requires the clarification, at Loews I was told we had to do so to make sure customers understood it was not butter and we didn't get sued for false advertising or whatever...not sure how likely that really was and if it was chain-wide policy or not, but the theater manager where I worked was serious about it.

Just to note, the original IBM PC came with an 8088, not an 8086 (PC-XT and PCjr also). That doesn't change any of the above though, the chips are essentially the same except the 8086 has a 16-bit data bus and the 8088 an 8-bit data bus. The PS/2 models 25 and 30 along with the AT&T 6300 used an 8086, but the 8088 or 80286 seemed to be more commonly used.

Yep...here's some background on the game:

The Shareware Scene, Part 4: DOOM. Also read the prior and next parts of this series to get more of an idea how.

A lot of these more advanced features (including sprites, access to expanded memory, subprograms, and more) required the the TI Extended BASIC Command Module (cartridge). The built-in TI BASIC did not support these features.

Yeah, John Oliver did an excellent segment on all of this; Tickets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

"Ticketmaster is one of the most hated companies on earth, which is really impressive because remember this is a planet in which AT&T also exists."

That can be changed during life too: Artificial cranial deformation

5. Acquisitions

I ended up at a large bank when my small regional bank was acquired by Capital One. I've seen several small banks get gobbled up, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens a lot more than I'm aware of. Then that #4 (inertia) kicks in...

It's extremely unlikely the collision with Andromeda galaxy will do anything to the solar system other than change the appearance of stars in the night sky; the main cause for concern will be the Sun turning into a red giant in some 5-6 billion years; in doing so it will engulf Earth, and maybe even Mars. So Earth still won't be around for that estimated 13.2 billion years to see what happened.

You would want to do that anyway for optimal sound; the earlier AGI games only had multichannel music/sound on a Tandy 1000 or PCjr, that 3 voice sound chip will not be available on any system for decades without emulation. Later games in the series would have been optimized for the Roland MT-32 and/or LAPC-I; most people won't have one of those on hand, and you can emulate this sound option as well without having to shell out for a used one on eBay or similar.