We were reminiscing about phones the other day with my friends. How mobile phones were huge just a few years ago, then started going smaller and smaller-the smaller it was, the more expensive and classy the mobile phone was. In standard human weird trends, the size started getting bigger again-now everyone wants a big phone!
Computers, on the other hand, have gotten smaller and smaller over the years-remember Main Frame computers? You don’t, that’s something you only read about. Laptops were a welcome development-a small computer you can carry around-who would have thought that would be?
So, as I was scouring the internet, I chanced upon a peculiar flash video. The first laptop!
Weighing only 13 kilograms, the thing looks like a combined microwave and typewriter!
Introducing 1983’s Portable LCD Computer!
Source: Yahoo
Whoa! Now, start imagining how this jumbo shrank to your palmsize-tablet! BusinessWeek has this post on the evolution of laptops that will make you drool. Your beloved laptop was once a knitting machine! How about that for making you feel better, at least you evolved from a monkey.