And no, I don't mean BYOB. Quite different altogether. BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device.
Once upon a time computers were as big as dragons. They hunkered down in their own caves and required their own air conditioning systems. Back then financial institutions had all the commercial computing power and the internet was more fiction than reality. According to Factmonster, the term "Internet" wasn't even used until 1982.
When desktop computers arrived, almost all long distance computer connections belonged to the military or the educational institutions. My first connection to the world wide web operated at 300 baud* accompanied by lots of squeals and whistles.
The next step took us from desktop boxes to the laptops of the middle ages. Tablets have become the rage but the gorilla in personal connectivity is the smartphone.** More people connect to the internet by smartphone than all other devices combined. The future probably holds a few wearable devices but for now the device of choice is the smartphone. So, BYOD and lets get back to work.
*The term baud was more common when transactions were made across analog lines. At 300 baud, it would take almost a week to transfer 20 Megabytes of data. A cable connection today (at 20 Mbps) would transfer that same package in about 1 minute (see the conversion table at ConvertEverything.com)
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Once upon a time computers were as big as dragons. They hunkered down in their own caves and required their own air conditioning systems. Back then financial institutions had all the commercial computing power and the internet was more fiction than reality. According to Factmonster, the term "Internet" wasn't even used until 1982.
When desktop computers arrived, almost all long distance computer connections belonged to the military or the educational institutions. My first connection to the world wide web operated at 300 baud* accompanied by lots of squeals and whistles.
The next step took us from desktop boxes to the laptops of the middle ages. Tablets have become the rage but the gorilla in personal connectivity is the smartphone.** More people connect to the internet by smartphone than all other devices combined. The future probably holds a few wearable devices but for now the device of choice is the smartphone. So, BYOD and lets get back to work.
*The term baud was more common when transactions were made across analog lines. At 300 baud, it would take almost a week to transfer 20 Megabytes of data. A cable connection today (at 20 Mbps) would transfer that same package in about 1 minute (see the conversion table at ConvertEverything.com)
**Graphics available here.
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