Here’s a clever, just-under-four-minutes animated history of all the things leading up to the iPhone created by CNET UK. It includes:
- Steve Jobs
- The Motorola Dynatac, and later the ROKR
- Sony portable tape players (which would lead to the Walkman)
- ARPANET
- Tim Berners-Lee and his NeXT cube
- Apple’s Jony Ive and his spiritual predecessor, Braun’s Dieter Rams
- NeXTSTEP