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How IBM's rushed 5150 became a cloneable platform—and why published interfaces, an independent BIOS, and DOS all mattered.
How transistors, integrated circuits, memory, displays, batteries, and manufacturing—not one magic chip—made personal computing portable.
How AOL's 1998 all-stock Netscape agreement combined a portal, enterprise software, talent, and browser leverage—not one simple Microsoft counterattack.
What Tim Berners-Lee's August 6, 1991 Usenet summary actually announced—and why it was neither the internet's birth nor the first site's launch date.
IBM launched the 5150 in August 1981 with an unusually modular design whose documentation and suppliers helped create the PC-compatible market.
How Napster's June 1999 launch paired a central search index with peer-to-peer transfers—and why its short life permanently changed digital music.
Netscape's spectacular August 1995 debut became a symbol of internet investing, but one trading day did not create the dot-com bubble by itself.
Netscape's January 1998 pledge led to Mozilla's first source release in March, but converting old browser code into Firefox took years.