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Technology, the brand is today, tomorrow solves only a smile on tomorrow laughter. The CeBIT is a great clock - when there's still MP3 Player for 20,000 euros, when the Krachlederne came with a user? A photo retrospective Cebit in past times.

 

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Nothing is as fast as old as high - and never seen better than on a high-tech trade fair Cebit like. When the first time in 1987 as a separate event held there was not even the World Wide Web, and computers were for the most people, something that one needs in the office, when you're in a really modern company.

Mobile phones were mobile only when they are in a car built, Beamer called nor overhead projectors and printers were full of needles (see photo gallery below). From year to year, then the fair bigger, more important - and above all faster. The pace of innovation in the IT industry was quick to brand new old hats - such as the two pictured below next to mobile phones by the manufacturer Ericsson.

The controls already in 2000 the mobile Internet standard WAP - the now hardly anyone uses because modern phones obvious normal sites. Nine years ago but it was very innovative, and the company Ericsson remained not long alone: So much innovation called strong partners from the Far East on the plan, which is only too happy to know wanted to buy.

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Already in 2001, joined the Swedes with Sony Ericsson to the joint venture Sony Ericsson.

In the year 2000 but were still separated both represented in Hanover. Sony presented this there named Handy CMD-Z5, "smaller than a credit card" - though a little thicker.

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