OTA Dispatch Issue 3, 2021

22 Oregon Trucking Associations, Inc. Oregon Truck Dispatch (More Than a) Laptop The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, which was released in April 1981 and weighed 24.5-pounds. Still, for the best example of the progression to where we are now, with the average weight a laptop anywhere between two and eight pounds, one must look at IBM, starting with the IBM 5100. Released in September 1975, the computer weighed 55 pounds. A later version released in 1984 went down to 30-pounds. Weighing in at just 12 pounds, IBM announced its first “laptop” computer in 1986. IBM’s first notebook computer, the ThinkPad 775CD, was introduced in 1994. We’ve seen even more since then and there’s no telling what’s coming next! Technology, cont. 1990 Researcher Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore) develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), giving rise to the World Wide Web. 1996 Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop the Google search engine at Stanford University. 2006 The year of the MacBook Pro, Intel- based iMac and Nintendo’s Wii game console. 1999 The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires. 2007 The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone. 2010 Apple unveils the iPad. 2012 Facebook gains 1 billion users on October 4. * Information taken from History of Computers: A Brief Timeline on livescience.com