Comments on: The Evolution of Internet-Enabled Devices

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:53:22 +0000

Great Article!
Many things have changed since I accessed the Internet the first time.
I could access the Internet via my 56kbit/s Modem and later with ISDN 128kb/s .. Used to be a great speed back then, I could do everything.. Play Games like Command and Conquer online, Chat via AIM and read Websites.
Now I have 16Mbit/s DSL and Wifi. My Notebook, my 2 PC’s and my Xbox360 are connected through a switch, which is connected to a router.. (nobody could’ve imagine, that this will be standard)

Conclusion: Its much faster, but yet its still not fast enough. The Internet is getting bigger, aswell as our TVs, Movies or the Amount of Data we need.

By: Daquan Wright

Daquan Wright — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:21:46 +0000

PS3 has a god awful browser, I really hope we don’t have to code for game consoles. lol

I’ll try (cry)… :P

By: Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:17:50 +0000

Don’t get me started on my first computer (a Packard Bell PC with an amber/black display and PFS:Write as the word processor, a terrific program!). My then-in-laws had the first wireless “brick” phone I’d ever seen; you could beat people to death with it.

My then-wife was standing behind me when we accessed the Internet for the first time. The Packard Bell site came up, and she asked in amazement and disgust, “Is THIS the Internet?”

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:07:22 +0000

Great post! I like iphone and ipad, but now there are very cheap tablets with android 3.0, it’s bettery and ios.the price is only less then usd200!

By: Dennis Hilario

Dennis Hilario — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:02:47 +0000

nice on!

By: Michael K.

Michael K. — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:43:35 +0000

@Tristan – Have to agree there. I think resolutions of 800×600 came way after whatever the resolution was on our old Commodore 128 and Commodore 64 computers! 8 bit graphics were the bomb back then. :-)

I also remember at that time using a 14.4K dial-up modem to try and connect to QLink (which was later purchased by AOL in the early 90′s) to view news on the internet, connect to bulletin boards and other activities I cannot recall…

By: Young

Young — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:21:14 +0000

A pretty cool synopsis. In my native Korea people have had in-vehicle streaming TV for a long time now; every taxi cab and smartphone over there has TV on the cellular network. I always thought it was a bit dangerous to have – some of those drivers definitely weren’t paying attention to the road! Last time I visited I watched in awe as my friends streamed YouTube videos underground inside a moving subway train. I’m sure America’s not too far from that.

By: S.K. (Insfired)

S.K. (Insfired) — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:34:33 +0000

I fully agree with the commenter above (Alexander D.), Apple may have not been the first to introduce mobile browsing – but it did it Apple style – stylish, and usable/easy even for the non-techies or avid adopters of technology.

By: Alexander Dawson

Alexander Dawson — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:56:40 +0000

I know that the iPhone wasn’t the first, however it differed from it’s predecessors in being the first to really popularize the idea of browsing the web on that style of device. Until that point (as you mentioned), the rendering situation was pretty dire in regard to standards support and it could be said that while they we’re Web enabled, they weren’t evolved enough to really be considered overly useful – though that’s a matter of opinion.

By: Sunny Singh

Sunny Singh — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:19:01 +0000

I agree with most of what you said, and that mobile devices have drastically changed the Web, but don’t tell me that you think Steve Jobs created the first Internet-enabled smartphone? BlackBerries, LG Prada (which almost filed a lawsuit against Apple for copying its ideas/design), and others have had HTML browsers for a while. Sure it wasn’t up to par with mobile Safari, but the iPhone wasn’t the first.