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eru 3 days ago

You know that the personal computer predates the web by quite a few years?

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jayd16 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, I was too hyperbolic. I simply meant connecting to the web didn't make it not a PC.

The web really pushed adoption, much more than a person computation machine. It was the main use case for most folks.

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rambambram 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This. Although briefly, there was at least a couple of years of using pc's without an internet connection. It's unthinkable now. And even back then, when you blinked with your eyes this time period was over.

	▲	eru 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That was a pretty long blink? The personal computer arguably begins with VisiCalc in 1979. > Through the 1970s, personal computers had proven popular with electronics enthusiasts and hobbyists, however it was unclear why the general public might want to own one. This perception changed in 1979 with the release of VisiCalc from VisiCorp (originally Personal Software), which was the first spreadsheet application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#... Mainstream use of the web really took off in the second half of the 1990s. Arbitrarily, let's say with the release of Windows 95. That's a quarter of a century you'd be blinking for.