Back in 1983, before the launch of the original Macintosh, Steve Jobs gave an incredibly prescient speech. In part, he said:

Apple’s strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes … and we really want to do it with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything and you’re in communication with all of these larger databases and other computers.

Five years ago today, that dream came true with the launch of the original iPad. Rene Ritchie, writing for iMore, takes a look back at the iPad launch, first impressions, and impact.