Mary Lou Jepson, a promising LCD Screen Designer is the woman who conceived the first notebook. MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte introduced himself to help the One Laptop per Child "project on education in developing countries where not all computers are in the poorer schools. The notebooks Revolution be part of it!

Jepson was the task of making a little rugged laptop computer with the best of the basics: a full keyboard, Wi-Fi connectivity, a colorDisplay and battery power that, when regular power supply would not be available to keep, as in many developing countries. Only 50% of the world's children have regular access to electricity. For about 100 U.S. dollars, so these little booklets, governments would be sold in large quantities and distributed free to children in rural areas and villages.