In 2001, students carried cell phones with monochrome displays, movies still came on VHS tapes, and the Mount’s computer labs looked quite a bit different than they do today.
This image of the college’s Curriculum Library in Hudson Hall illustrates modern technology from two decades ago: boxy monitors, wired computer mice, and CD-ROMs with a whopping 700-megabyte data capacity. For reference, current smartphones can hold about 200 times that or more.
Technology was moving rapidly, and CD-ROMs would soon be eclipsed by DVDs – thanks in part to the PlayStation 2 video game console, which hit North American shores in the year 2000. Both disc formats would eventually give way to the flash drives and cloud solutions we use today.
In 2014, the Curriculum Library and Curtin Memorial Library were absorbed into the college’s state-of-the-art Kaplan Family Library and Learning Center. The former Curtin Library is now home to the School of Business, and the Curriculum Library became a student lounge. There are more computers on campus too, with flat screen monitors and storage capacity that would have boggled our minds 20 years ago.
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