Laptops were called “microcomputers”, and were the size of a small house.
Remember when this was the latest technology? Computer technology has certainly come a long way in only a few decades. Tech that was once cutting-edge is just plain funny now. Take a trip back in time and enjoy the computers of days long ago. (Pics)
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Anti-lasing
The laser — a 50-year-old invention now used in everything from CDs to laser pointers — has met its match in the “antilaser,” the first device capable of trapping and canceling out laser beams.
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Internet Protocol version 6
Who could have guessed that 4.3 billion Internet connections wouldn’t be enough? Certainly not Vint Cerf.
In 1976, Mr. Cerf and his colleagues in the R.& D. office of the Defense Department had to make a judgment call: how much network address space should they allocate to an experiment connecting computers in an advanced data network?
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We receive 5 times more information today than we did in 1986.
If you think that you are suffering from information overload then you may be right – a new study shows everyone is bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day. The growth in the internet, 24-hour television and mobile phones means that we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986.
Number of mobile broandband subrscriptions to surpass 1 billion in 2011.
Mobile broadband subscriptions are on track to surpass 1 billion in 2011 only months after reaching half a billion, Ericsson said on Tuesday, highlighting a key growth driver for the telecom sector.
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