- Published on March 11, 2022
- In AI Features
Happy 10th birthday to Raspberry Pi: A timeline
The name Raspberry Pi is derived from the fruit pie, raspberry pie. Many companies in the computer neighbourhood where Raspberry Pi was based used fruit names such as Apple and apricot as names for their companies and products.
- By Poornima Nataraj
The tiny pocket-sized computer Raspberry Pi recently completed ten years of its existence, and it has now become more than just a computer. It has been widely used among students, teachers and enthusiasts to push their boundaries of technology, and engineers and IT managers use it for their professional work.
On completion of ten years, Eben Upton, the founder of Raspberry Pi, said, "Ten years ago, when Raspberry Pi computers began their sale, about 1,00,000 orders were already placed, and we had out-trended Lady Gaga very briefly. Raspberry Pi was on the road to become a little larger than we had planned."
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Raspberry Pi computers are largely used in weather monitoring, desktop PCs, wireless print servers, media usage, game servers, retro gaming
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Poornima Nataraj
Poornima Nataraj has worked in the mainstream media as a journalist for 12 years, she is always eager to learn anything new and evolving. Witnessing a revolution in the world of Analytics, she thinks she is in the right place at the right time.
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