A (not so) brief history of computer adoption

It used to be, back in the stone ages, we used PC's such as the Apple IIe, IBM PC/AT, and Commodore PET. As technology has advanced, uptake rates in technology has significantly increased and spread across platforms and applications.

We talk a lot about technology in this class including its evolution and its impact, so this article on Ars Technica is a good place to start. It is an interesting examination of how technology has been adopted and adapted over time, starting all the way back with the Altair which, incidentally, gave Microsoft the foot in the door it needed to become the company it has grown into today.

The article is long, but it really gives a solid explanation of where we are in terms of technology and how we got there, and that's important to understand since we use so much of it so often today.