Time magazine ‘Person of the Year’, 1981
IDEA No 9
THE PERSONAL COMPUTER
When Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web in 1990, he was simply bringing together a number of existing technologies – electronic documents, hypertext and the internet. The machine that made all these possible was the personal computer.
An IBM Personal Computer running MS-DOS.
In 1971, a two-year-old electronics company called Intel was commissioned to produce an integrated circuit for a groundbreaking new product, the electronic calculator. The challenge was to create an inexpensive microchip, small enough to fit inside a pocketsized device. Intel employee number ...
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