{"id":14824,"date":"2019-01-19T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/blackberry-introduced-2\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:16:19","slug":"blackberry-introduced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/blackberry-introduced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-482\" title=\"The Original Blackberry\" alt=\"The Original Blackberry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/c8760__blackberry.jpeg\" width=\"232\" height=\"186\" \/>January 19, 1999<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BlackBerry\" target=\"_blank\">RIM introduces the BlackBerry<\/a>. The original BlackBerry devices were not phones, but instead were the first mobile devices that could do real-time e-mail. They looked like big pagers. I should know. I had one on my hip for two years while working at Anheuser-Busch in the early 2000&#8217;s. In 2001, I visited the BlackBerry production facility in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was surprisingly small at the time. They way I heard it, the name &#8220;BlackBerry&#8221; came from the similarity that the buttons on the original device had to the surface of a blackberry fruit. Those crazy Canadians!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/19\/blackberry-introduced\/\">BlackBerry Introduced<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/19\/blackberry-introduced\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19, 1999 RIM introduces the BlackBerry. The original BlackBerry devices were not phones, but instead were the first mobile devices that could do real-time e-mail. They looked like big pagers. I should know. I had one on my hip for two years while working at Anheuser-Busch in the early 2000&#8217;s. In 2001, I visited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4160,926],"class_list":["post-14824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-blackberry","tag-introduced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}