My future partner Marc Andreessen was up north leading the development of the first mass market browser. Computers were now on every desktop, becoming more powerful, and their uses were expanding. The first one I saw was the size of a suitcase (it actually had wheels) and people said it was “luggable.”ĭuring the 1990s, I found myself working at The Walt Disney Company in southern California. “Portable” computers emerged in the middle of the decade. It sat on a desk and wasn’t connected to anything but the power supply and a printer. Our department had one personal computer that had to be shared. “Spreadsheets” were largely done by hand on big sheets of paper, aided by desktop calculating machines. Most of you wouldn’t recognize the office I worked in: phones sat on desks, were plugged into walls and were the only way you could communicate with workers not in the office. I graduated from college in the early 1980s and entered the professional workforce.
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