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music CD's
released to public in 1982. First ones could hold about 80 minutes of music. The first CD was an album by Swedish pop group Abba called "The Visitors" -
cell phone Motorola Dynatac
Made by Motorola. The Dynatac 8000x was a sign of wealth and prestige. -
home camcorder
Sony released first camcorder called the Betacam. It used a Betamax casette tape. Only 1 year later Kodak announced the 8mm format. -
Microsoft windows
Introduced by Bill Gates as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS. -
Nintendo Game Boy
First released in Japan. Developed by Satoru Okada and Gunpei Yokoi for Nintendo. Handheld version of NES that could travel anywhere and only required batteries.