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A history lesson: browsers and computers

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Posted Thursday, 19 July 2007, 16:41 HST @028

TechRepublic has a photo gallery of Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 1 through 7, along with pictures of some old PCs. I doubt any of these PCs from the 80s ran IE, as version 1 was released in 1995. This industrial film from 1994 helps set the mood.

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Meanwhile, a German website has some photos of Apple prototypes and products from the same period. Check out the 1983 iPhone! Reminds me of Minitel, an online service that most Americans have never heard of, even if it’s still popular in France. See these BBC and Wikipedia. articles for more information.

Tags: Apple, EU, Europe, france, Germany, hardware, history, IBM, interface, Internet, iPhone, mac, Microsoft, mobile, software, video, Windows
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