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Describing a laptop from 1994 as “a netbook before there really was a net“ —- I don’t get.
by mattl 8y ago
Describing a laptop from 1994 as “a netbook before there really was a net“ —- I don’t get.
- iamdave 8y agoAm I having a generational moment? I have fond memories of 1994's "Internet" with a capital I It just looked and operated like a whole other beast then. In part and parcel it practically was a different aninmal.
- mattl 8y agoBy 94 we had web browsers and home ISPs.
- mwcampbell 8y agoBack then, they called it a subnotebook, and it was plenty useful offline. My Contura Aero (in 1994-95) had a 486 (SX I think, 25 or 33 MHz), 4 MB of RAM, and a ~170 MB hard drive. The 3.5" floppy drive was indeed connected via PCMCIA. Its primary purpose was taking notes in class and doing homework, but I also did some QBASIC and assembly programming on it.
- mattl 8y agoMy point is in 1994 we had web browsers, home ISPs and more. There was no “before the net” in 1994.