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 |
