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{{distinguish|information appliance|computer appliance}} {{refimprove|date=September 2008}} [[File:VTech Model 80-36447 Internet Appliance.jpg|thumb|A [[VTech]] Model 80-36447, a type of Internet Appliance. Note the button on the console that would link the user to the [[Yahoo!]] webportal.]] An '''Internet appliance''' is a consumer device whose main function is easy access to [[Internet]] services such as [[World Wide Web|WWW]] or [[e-mail]].<ref>{{Cite book | author=Bergman, Eric | title=Information Appliances and Beyond (Interactive Technologies) | year=2000 | publisher=Morgan Kaufmann | isbn=1-55860-600-9 | pages=50β70 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtPlin2FNXMC | access-date=2008-05-06 }}</ref> The term was popularized in the 1990s, when it somewhat overlapped in meaning with an [[information appliance]], [[desktop computer]], [[network computer]], or even [[thin client]],<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Keen, Peter G. W. |author2=Mougayar, Walid |author3=Torregrossa, Tracy | title=The business internet and intranets: a manager's guide to key terms and concepts | date=1998 | publisher=Harvard Business School Press | location=Boston, Mass | isbn=0-87584-840-0 | pages=122 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbWTzeLa4yoC }}</ref> but now it has fallen out of general use. Internet appliances were contrasted with any general purpose [[computer]], but unlike personal computers, internet appliances were low cost and low margin products, usually using highly optimised low power silicon specifically built for internet use. Modern [[smart phone]]s and [[tablet computer]]s do approximately the same things, but are more powerful, more successful in the market, and generally not classified as Internet appliances.
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