Tablets Aren't Just Stone Anymore

By Alan

It used to be that when you talked about Tablets, you would capitalize the word from respect, and you meant the rock tablets that held the Ten Commandments (and we don't mean the movie). It was some hunk of stone or wood that carried an inscription. It was the best method for having an enduring message. Paper or parchment wouldn't really last years, much less centuries.

Then, the word tablet (or tablette) showed up to mean something pressed together into a small package (like a tablette of soap) which eventually came to mean a small pressed package of powder into a medicinal dose. That became the primary use of the word in the 20th century.

Enter computers. Tablet computing became a popular definition. But, Tablet Computing has come and gone as possible items in "the next big thing", but the sales never went anywhere, and the companies that made tablets found only a couple niche markets that could support any users of tablets.

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