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`The History of Tablet Computers: A timeline
`Today's tablet landscape is dominated by Apple's iPad and Android devices from Samsung, Google and
`others, with Windows-based tablets from Microsoft and its partners making recent inroads on the market.
`But where did all these tablets spring from?
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` Charles McLellan March 3, 2014 -- 17:56 GMT (09:56 PST)
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`The History of Tablet Computers
`Your age probably determines when you think tablet computers were invented: 'Millennials' (a.k.a.
`Generation Y) are unlikely to look further back than Apple's first-generation iPad in 2010; Generation X
`types may recall Microsoft's 2002 Tablet PC launch and subsequent releases; and Baby Boomers (myself
`included) with fond memories of
`, Star Trek 2001: A Space Odyssey
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`A Hitchhiker's Guide to the
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`science fiction — Apple's Newton-based MessagePads, early Fujitsu tablets, the first IBM ThinkPad, for
`example.
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`An evolving heritage
`For a supposedly 'new' style of computing, tablets have a lengthy and convoluted heritage (remember Ultra
`Mobile PCs? They petered out in pre-iPad days and came back as today's small form-factor tablets). To
`get an impression of that still-evolving heritage, explore our Dipity timeline (above). We've included a lot of
`tablets (and tablet/notebook convertibles and hybrids), but do not claim to have covered every significant
`product. In particular, we haven't explored PDAs (which merged with mobile phones to become today's
`smartphones and phablets), beyond the Apple MessagePad. If you recall a particularly influential device
`that we've missed, do let us know — we'll keep updating and amending the timeline.
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