As I tap this out on my laptop—a tax roundup that you’ll likely read on a mobile phone or tablet—it’s easy to feel like technology has been around forever. Some advances have been around for decades, but some of what we rely on every day may be a lot younger than you think.
The iPhone on display in January 2007 at MacWorld in San Francisco.
Photographer: David Paul Morris via Getty Images.
The first handheld cellular mobile phone—a Motorola—made an appearance in 1973, but the first time that many Americans saw it in use was in the 1987 movie Wall Street. However, the first iPhone wasn’t released until 20 years later.
The first laptop computer—the Osborne 1—was ...
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