In 2010, Google’s experimental CR-48 was the first Chromebook-but you couldn’t buy it. It was “quite a different type of computing environment,” as I put it in my own first impressions, and it felt “very foreign” to use. Heck, you couldn’t even close the browser window, as there was nothing beneath it. There was no desktop, no taskbar, and not much of anything else in sight. When you signed into the original Chrome OS system on the decidedly understated CR-48 laptop, which was provided to a small pool of journalists and testers, all you were greeted with was a full-screen Chrome browser window. The earliest versions of Chrome OS revolved entirely around the browser, with a deliberate omission of any traditional operating system elements.Īnd boy, were those early versions jarring to use. It’s easy to forget now, but Chrome OS got its name because at the beginning, it was quite literally the Chrome operating system. That was the culmination of a journey that began when Google unveiled Chrome OS in the summer of 2009 and continued with an experimental prototype called the Cr-48 in December 2010. In May 2011, Google’s defiantly minimalist new computing platform-a little something the company called Chrome OS-shipped to consumers for the first time, on laptops from Samsung and Acer.
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