A history lesson: browsers and computers

by billso on Thursday, 19 July 2007

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.

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