All the iPhone buzz started at MacWorld 07 where Steve Jobs announced that Apple will soon be releasing a touchscreen phone i.e. the iPhone.

The interesting fact here is that despite its launch in 2007, iPhone is being worked upon since 1999 and the following visual iPhone timeline can explain it no better.

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The iPhone comes to focus in 1999 when Apple registers the domain iPhone.org and makes it redirect to Apple.com. The domains iPhone.com and iPhone.net however redirect to http://www.apple.com/iphone.

More interesting facts can be seen on the timeline.