13 Nov 2010 1:37
“Screaming performance” is a label journalists seem to apply judiciously. The vast Google News Archives records only 28 outbursts having met the high bar. However, a trend is clear. Did Howard Dean kill screaming? Is technological singularity just around the corner?
Year | Screaming Performer(s) |
1964 | Girls who mobbed the Beatles in 1964 (described in 2009) |
1972 | McGovern supporters |
1986 | Brian De Palma |
1993 | Dell’s computers designed specifically for “techno-wizards” |
1994 | Nine Inch Nails |
1994 | The latest 32-bit and 64-bit printer and switch controllers |
1997 | The 1997 Plymouth Prowler’s V6 engine |
1998 | Jerry Stiller |
2001 | Early 1990s Japanese sports cars |
2001 | Edward Petherbridge (actor, playing a homosexual matchmaker) |
2002 | Dell’s Latitude C610 laptop |
2003 | Dell’s Inspiron 8500 series laptop |
2003 | A refurbished HP Pavilion ze5185 notebook PC |
2004 | Howard Dean |
2004 | NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 |
2004 | Sun Microsystems’ Linux computers |
2005 | The Altix 1330 server cluster |
2005 | IBM’s eServer p5 Unix machines |
2006 | NIVIDA’s GeForce 7950 GT |
2006 | MSI’s PCX5750-TD128 graphics adapter |
2007 | Dell’s Workstation configurations with 1600 MHz front-side bus |
2007 | Kingmax’s 4GB microSDHC card |
2008 | Alienware’s Area-51 ALX (with Radeon’s HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX) |
2008 | Gateway’s Core i7 Gaming PC |
2008 | The “Next Generation Intel Core Microarchitecture Family of Processors” |
2009 | NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M GT |
2009 | Intel’s X25-E solid state drive |
2009 | LaCie’s SATA II ExpressCard 34 storage controller |