The image below is a clipping from a newspaper in 1976 when the original Apple-1 computer was being advertised. A few things really stood out, but one of them was the Apple logo (bottom of left column). Wow, good thing they changed that, huh? The next thing that stood out was the price – $666.66?
The Internet has evolved into a marvelous thing, but it all had to start somewhere. The first website was located here (now replaced with an informational page), and it was started to aid physicists in answering tough questions about the universe. Now, however, the web is practically its own universe and almost everyone has their own website(s).
Founded in 1976, Apple has continued to change the face of computers as we know them to be today. Apple computers were originally hand-built out of a garage. It began with the Apple I, and has evolved into the Apple as we know it today; whether it's the MacBook or the MacBookPro.
Microsoft Windows is obviously the most used operating system and sometimes we may take for granted how far computers have come. Each time a new version of Windows is released we compare it to the previous version and with the upcoming release of Vista everyone likes to say "what's different from XP?"
Supercomputers can handle absolutely enormous processing tasks these days and some will be approaching 1 PFLOPS (1 Peta Floating Point Operations). It would be pretty sweet to play a game of Solitaire on that baby!
All kinds of electronic devices from cameras, to video game systems have been getting wireless capabilities. This made me wonder why portable televisions haven't been improving.
In the early 90's, 1990 to be exact, Apple released the "Mac Classic" that was meant to be priced for those on a budget at $1500.00. It ended up being a disappointment for many, with some models only coming with 1 MB of RAM and no hard drive.
Every now and then it is fun to take a look back at what Web sites looked like when they first started. This is made possible thanks to the Way Back Machine. So why don't we take a stroll back to 1996 and take a look at what Dell looked like.