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1981 Floppy Disk
1981 3 ½" floppy disk was introduced by Sony. Although this being the 3rd iteration of the floppy disk with its predecessors being 8" and 5 ¼", the disk itself was no longer floppy now in hard plastic. The new hard-floppy disk was capable of storing 400kb and later doubled to about 720K then what is known as high density at 1.44MB. The floppy disk was breakthrough technology that pioneered the buying and selling of soft ware in store or through the mail for the first pass-produced computer. -
1984 Flash Memory
1984 Flash memory is something used in many types of electronic devices such as personal computers, digital devices like cameras or audio players to video games. Flash memory gave us the ability to easily erase memory the can be reprogramed. Working for Toshiba at the time, Japanese engineer invented it Fujio Masuoka who also developed many other now widely used memory processors like dynamic random- access memory or DRAM. -
1984 Matrix Laboratory
1984 Matrix Laboratory, better known as MatLab, is at this point a commercial product engineers and students use to learn a multitude of computing and user created interfaces. As a hobby, Professor Cleve Moler of the University of New Mexico, originally developed Matrix Lab as a way to teach students math concepts like linear algebra. -
1987 Perl
1987 Perl, a high-level, general-purpose programming language written by Larry Wal, was used in the late 1990’s for Common Gateway Interface or CGI (not to be confused with CGI the computer-generated imagery). The former CGI was known for its flexibility and power in processing inputted data retrieval was know as the duct tape of the internet. -
!989 Game Boy
1989 Nintendo releases the Game Boy, an 8-bit handheld device that had superior battery life to its competitors and stored the gaming software in easy to remove plastic cartages. Patented held by Richard Huynh, the Game Boy also had greater gaming selection and original games like Tetris.