Webbook

Webbooks (a portmanteau of web and notebook computer) are a class of laptop computers such as the litl, Elonex[1] and Coxion[2] webbook computers.

The word may also refer to books that are available in HTML on the web.[3] and the NIST Chemistry WebBook, a scientific database of chemical properties maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The word may also refer to The WebBook Company of Birmingham, Michigan, which planned to deliver a Net computer based on the PSC1000 RISC processor (then and now also known as the ShBoom) designed by Charles H. Moore.[4]

U.S. Trademark 77,616,571 was filed by Robert & Colleen Kell of Austin, Texas on 18 November 2008. This move was criticized on the grounds that it was unlikely for a marketing and advertising agency to have a legitimate intent to use and invest in the term. Nevertheless, the application was deemed abandoned on Aug. 23, 2009.

gollark: Really? It shouldn't.
gollark: In PotatOS I solved it by forbidding the user from editing things.
gollark: Anyway, the trouble is that it's very hard to make it so that eeevil programs can't meddle with OS internals, but the user *can*.
gollark: Yes, that's how the CC FDE things I've seen worked.
gollark: Which is a problem, by the way.

See also

References
  1. Computer Buyer Product Review for Elonex webbook
  2. Coxion WebBook product page
  3. Webbook of African Language Resources
  4. CNET: "WebBook preps $700 Net device" 1996
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