The 26th of February 2017 marked CareDirector’s 20 year anniversary. CareDirector is delighted to celebrate 20 years in business and we are looking forward to continuing to deliver high quality health and human services solutions.

We would like to take a moment to thank all our staff and customers who have been involved with CareDirector over the last 20 years. You have helped to make us the company that we are today.

As CareDirector was founded in 1997 we thought we would look back and see how far technology has come since then and what was happening in 1997.

                                           TECHNOLOGY IN 1997

  • We listened to music via real player and used AOL instant messenger
  • The three top computer companies (hardware) were IBM, Dell & Hewlett-Packard
  • Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.0 in September
  • Google registered the google.com domain name after Sergey Brin and Larry Page decide to change the name of their BackRub search engine

TOP THINGS IN 1997

  • The Film: Titanic
  • The Toy: Tamagotchi
  • The World Leaders: Bill Clinton, John Major, Jacques Chirac, Helmut Kohl, Boris Yeltsin
  • The Song: Wannabe – Spice Girls
  • The Programme: Seinfield
  • The Sport Winners: Baseball World Series – Flordia Marlins – Superbowl – Green Bay Packers – Boxing – Lennox Lewis – Ice Hockey – Detroit Red Wings

WORLD HAPPENINGS IN 1997

India

Mother Teresa Dies in Calcutta

UK

Diana Princess of Wales is killed in a car crash in Paris

Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

Hong Kong’s British rule came to an end on July 1.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is released

United States

Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State for the first time in United States history.

Tiger Woods at 21 years old became the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters

Steve Jobs returns to run Apple Computers