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Jim Bolger is Prime Minister, Les Mills is Mayor of Auckland.<\/p>\n
OMC’s ‘How Bizarre’ is music single of the year.\u00a0 \u00a0The All Blacks beat the British Lions 3-0, Danyon Loader wins two golds at the Olymics in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
There is no Google.\u00a0 But we do have “Ask Jeeves<\/a>“, “The Wayback Machine<\/a>” and “Ancestry.com”.<\/a> We’re using Windows 95 (but are a little jealous of that year’s Macs).\u00a0 Windows NT 4.0 is landing in market.\u00a0\u00a0 Netgear\u00a0<\/a> and Lexar<\/a> were founded.<\/p>\n Big tech news was the first ever clamshell phone – the Motorola StarTac<\/a> and it’s funny how they are coming back\u2026 albeit in a much more useful way with Samsung.<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Motorola-StarTAC.png” title_text=”Motorola StarTAC” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1996-website-logos.png” title_text=”1996 website logos” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n 1996 was the year our founder, Andrew Hunt, quit his day job and set up Kinetics.<\/p>\n Armed with pretty much nothing but a desire to make an impact for businesses in the way they use IT, he put up his shingle and set out to learn about being in business!<\/p>\n He came up with a business name, registered it and set up financial accounts.\u00a0 He set up a PO Box and in the early days, went days and weeks with no actual post.\u00a0 That changed and eventually grew to the point when a daily courier dropped the mail off.\u00a0 Now we’re back again to very little physical mail!<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n The world has changed so much.\u00a0 And so has Kinetics.\u00a0 We had one person in the team back then.\u00a0 Now we have 40, with customers in all sectors and in Australia, USA \u2013 even the UK!\u00a0 Our business includes professional services, SaaS solutions and cyber-security.\u00a0 Not to forget the fundamentals of making sure our clients have the right IT that works seamlessly.<\/p>\n An incredible number of MSP\u2019s have come and gone in the last 25 years.\u00a0 Although we haven\u2019t turned into a Google\u2026 we are proud to be still helping kiwi businesses do more with less, using IT that works, for them.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in 1996… Jim Bolger is Prime Minister, Les Mills is Mayor of Auckland. OMC’s ‘How Bizarre’ is music single of the year.\u00a0 \u00a0The All Blacks beat the British Lions 3-0, Danyon Loader wins two golds at the Olymics in Atlanta. There is no Google.\u00a0 But we do have “Ask Jeeves”, “The Wayback Machine” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}25 years and still going strong!<\/h2>\n