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Devices and hardware
This department
The machines the web was built on and the screens it is read on, from the NeXT computer to the smartphone.
Entries
8 of 8 planned entries are published. New entries are added in batches, and every one is checked against its sources before it goes live.
- NeXT Computer: The machine that ran the first web server
- Dial-up modem: How most people reached the web until the 2000s
- Apple Macintosh: Desktop publishing and early web design
- iPhone: 2007 and the full web on a phone
- Android smartphones: The phones most of the world browses on
- iPad and tablets: The in-between screen
- Computer monitors and screen sizes: 640×480 to 4K, and why layouts changed
- Data center: Where websites physically live