Technology Use

By Blloyd

  • Osborne I

    Osborne I
    April 1981
    The Osborne I, developed by Adam Obsorne, was the first truly portable computer. Weighing approximately 24lbs, it no longer took up a good portion of a room to house a computer paving the way for day to day home use and personal computers.

  • Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

    Motorola DynaTAC 8000X
    Released in the US in 1983
    Portable phones paved the way for more independence while still having the safety of contact with people outside of your immediate area by allowing people to make a call from nearly anywhere to nearly anywhere.

  • ThinkPad 775CD

    ThinkPad 775CD
    ThinkPad 775CD was released in 1994 by Intel
    This laptop featured a built in CD ROM, allowing people to load, or create information that would exceed the standard memory limits of a PC, and allow for easily portable and transferable data to be given to others.

  • Personal Computer w/ Windows 95

    Personal Computer w/ Windows 95
    Windows 95 was released August 24, 1995 by Microsoft
    A massive leap in the home computer world, and was the initial benchmark of what much of our modern-day PCs even do. Internet connections sped the world into a global communications network, easy user interfaces meant no more command codes to talk to your computer needed, and people began creating and sharing a multitude of new media. Example of the cultural creativeness that this technology gave way too: Sheep.exe

  • iPhone

    iPhone
    Janurary 09, 2007
    The iPhone wasn't the first smartphone but it revolutionized the UI, and pioneered the touch screen onto the popular market.
    Smart phones combined aspects of many separate technologies (phone, web browser, camera, calendar, clock, games, ect) into one compact and easily portable design, allowing for a multitude of different applications. Pictured is my first iPhone from the 6th generation